Interactive Acting

A practical handbook for interactive performance

Interactive Acting: acting, improvising, and interacting for audience participatory theatre offers a wealth of concepts, tools, and philosophy for the creation of interactive performance experiences.  The information and techniques are useful for improvisers, inter-actors, designers of interactive narrative, as well as those interested in understanding what makes participatory engagement succeed or fail.  This book  has been adopted for course work at universities across the United States. The numerous tools to facilitate engagement are illustrated by practical examples and can be applied by performers, writers, directors, and designers.  Also included are introductions to a variety of interactive performance styles, related readings, and a comprehensive glossary of terms.  For anyone looking to engage audiences, end-users, trainees, or customers in co-creative experiences, this book is an essential read.

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Interactive Acting: acting, improvisation, and interacting for audience participatory theatre
by Jeff Wirth
Published by Fall Creek Press
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Preview contents

  • Interactive Styles

Environmental Theatre
Playback Theatre
Theatre of the Oppressed
Theatrical Freestyle

  • Acting

Character
Environment

  • Improvising

Basics

Offers
Blocking
Accepting
Building
Give and Take

Narrative

C.R.O.W
Pegs
Links
Reincorporation

Structure

B.M.E.T.
Good Trouble
Bad Trouble
Avoiding Action
Style

  • Interacting

First Contact

Respect
The “F” Word
TLC
Picking Spectactors

Backleading

Cueing
Endowment
Blind Offers
Steps
Primers
Strokes

Incorporation

Bending
Weaving

Rough Edges

Anachronisms
Spectacting
Bad Spectactors
Obnoxious Audience
Caustic Characters

Interactoring

Lead and Fill
Character
Environment
Script and Improv
Alone Together

  • Conclusion
  • Afterwords

Environmental Interactive
Related Readings
Glossary

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