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Immersive Theatres: Intimacy and Immediacy in Contemporary Performance . By Josephine Machon . Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013. Pp. xix + 324 + 25 illus. £19.99/$30 Pb; £60/$85 Hb.
This inaugural monograph in the study of immersive theatre assertively responds to a gap in theatre studies scholarship that cried out for attention. Recent articles have informatively questioned the appropriateness of the label 'immersive theatre' and the novelty of the practice (see Gareth White, 'On Immersive Theatre', Theatre Research International, 37, 3 (October 2012), pp. 221-35; W. B. Worthen, '"The Written Troubles of the Brain": Sleep No More and the Space of Character', Theatre Journal, 64, 1 (March 2012), pp. 79-97). But with insightful limits now placed on what immersive theatre is not, the task at hand is to account for what immersive theatre is.
Machon sets a wide scope...