Real-ish : audiences, feeling, and the production of realness in contemporary performance / Kelsey Jacobson.

"Amidst Oxford Dictionaries declaring 'post-truth' the word of the year in 2016, and the fast propagation of terms like 'fake news,' the central question of this book is pressingly important at this contemporary critical juncture: What feels real to contemporary audiences? U...

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Main Author: Jacobson, Kelsey (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]
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505 0 |a Feeling Real: Realness, Affect, Audiences -- "Everything is True. Some Things are Scripted": Documentary Practice and the Presentation of Multiple Truths -- Talking to, at, and with Audiences: The Politics of Participation -- "You Will Long Remember": Performing the Historical Real -- Constructing Immersive Experiences for "Real" Engagement -- Immersion and Exertion: Audiences, Affect, and Feeling Labour. 
520 |a "Amidst Oxford Dictionaries declaring 'post-truth' the word of the year in 2016, and the fast propagation of terms like 'fake news,' the central question of this book is pressingly important at this contemporary critical juncture: What feels real to contemporary audiences? Using seventy interviews with audience members about the perceived realness of their experiences attending documentary, participatory, historical, or immersive theatre pieces, this book investigates the use, production, and perception of realness in current performance practices. Audience data from four performance pieces-Downstage Theatre's documentary play Good Fences, The Schaubühne/Tarragon Theatre's An Enemy of the People, Rising Tide Theatre's historical pageant in Newfoundland, and Outside the March's immersive play TomorrowLove-highlight a sense of "real-ish-ness" that results not from the real material used in the performances, but from the experience of attending the performance itself. The book thus makes the case for studying the real not as ontologically fixed but as relational and contingent, and argues that affect, emotion, and feeling can come to assign perceived realness. Though it begins with a consideration of theatre of the real, this monograph expands beyond this genre to suggest how how we might move forward with both a confidence in fact and a simultaneous awareness of reality's construction through emotion. In a post-truth, post-fact, perhaps even post-real world, how might theatre help us understand how realness is constructed, evaluated, and perhaps most importantly, felt?"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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