Collaborative experience making and interactive performance practice. Section introduction. Frameworks for making and performing in experiential performance / William W. Lewis and Valerie Clayman Pye -- Case studies. Designing play : game techniques in experiential and interactive performance / Adrienne Mackey -- Framework design : a curatorial approach to teaching participatory performance / Jamie Harper -- Intimacy in play : training actors for agentic symmetry in unscripted interactions / Amanda Rose Villarreal -- Roundtable interview. Experiential theatres and the value of rethinking theatre education : a conversation with performers and interactive theatre makers on developing methods for collaborative experience making / William W. Lewis and Valerie Clayman Pye -- Praxis essays. Facilitating narrative agency in experiential theatre / Astrid Breel -- Training the actor for roleplay and other improv-based interactive theatre forms / David Kaye -- Standardized patient experience : reframing pedagogical approaches to the acting studio / Matthew Mastromatteo -- The significance of 'role-play' and 'instruction-based performance' as modes of teaching, collaborating, and performing with/for participating audiences / Kesia Guillery, Persis Jadé Maravala, and Jorge Lopes Ramos -- Collaborative development workshop : approaching conceptualization through audience affordances and experiential trajectories / William W. Lewis -- Postdigital response. A postdigital response : user experience design, interactive, immersive, and mixed reality performance / Lindsay Brandon Hunter and Steve Luber -- Narrative and dramaturgy for experiential forms. Section introduction. Models for experiential training in playwriting and dramaturgy / Sean Bartley and Marshall Botvinick -- Case studies. Mapping narrative in Pig Iron Theatre Company's Pay up and Franklin's secret city / Robert Quillen Camp -- The dramaturgy of tabletop roleplaying games / Mike Sell -- Rasa in This Is Not A Theatre Company's experiential productions / Erin B. Mee - Roundtable interview. Reconfiguring narrative and experiential dramaturgy : a conversation with professional educators and dramaturgs on the future(s) of storytelling / Sean Bartley and Marshal Botvinick -- Praxis essays. Wildwind Performance Lab : new play development through abstraction / Sarah Johnson -- It's okay to not be "right" : incorporating creative thinking into theatrical partnerships / Rachel E. Bauer -- Theatrical immersion within alternate reality games / Hans Vermy - Postdigital response. A postdigital response : experiential dramaturgies of online theatre, cyberformance and digital texts -- Christina Papagiannouli -- Performance technologies and design thinking. Section introduction. Pedagogies for design thinking and experiential technologies / Bruce Bergner and Rich Dionne -- Case studies. Storyliving : a creative process / Justin Stichter -- Theatre majors and immersive technology : an interview with HP's Joanna Popper / E. B. Hunter -- Interaction and extended somatechnics / Johannes Birringer -- Roundtable interview. A design roundtable : the creative process of experience / Bruce Bergner, Rich Dionne, and William W. Lewis -- Praxis essays. Playing with the past : pirates in the college classroom / Samantha A. Meigs -- Unlocking formal qualities to discover the iconography in visual design / Stephen Jones -- Designing an interactive production : a practical walkthrough / Liz Fisher -- Postdigital response. A postdigital response to performance technologies and design thinking / Hans Vermy and Eric Hoff -- Afterword. An afterword : experience and theatre education / William W. Lewis and Sean Bartley.

""Experiential Theatres is a collaboratively edited and curated collection that delivers key insights into the processes of developing experiential performance projects and the pedagogies behind training theatre artists of the twenty-first century. Experiential refers to practices where the audience member becomes a crucial member of the performance world through the inclusion of immersion, participation, and play. As technologies of communication and interactivity have evolved in the postdigital era, so have modes of spectatorship and performance frameworks. This book provides readers with pedagogical tools for experiential theatre making that address these shifts in contemporary performance and audience expectations. Through case studies, interviews, and classroom applications the book offers a synthesis of theory, practical application, pedagogical tools, and practitioner guidance to develop a praxis-based model for university theatre educators training today's theatre students. Experiential Theatres presents a holistic approach for educators and students in areas of performance, design, technology, dramaturgy, and theory to help guide them through the processes of making experiential performance" -- Utgivarens hemsida.