The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-55679-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 190 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 898 g

The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia is the definitive book on the company’s work to date, marking eighteen years of Punchdrunk’s existence. It provides the first full-scale, historical account of one of the world’s foremost immersive theatre companies, drawn from unrivalled access to the collective memory and archives of their core creative team.

The playful encyclopaedic format, much like a Punchdrunk masked show, invites readers to create their own journey through the ideas, aesthetics, contexts, and practices that underpin Punchdrunk’s work. Interjections from Felix Barrett, Stephen Dobbie, Maxine Doyle, Peter Higgin, Beatrice Minns, Colin Nightingale and Livi Vaughan, among others, fill out the picture with in-depth reflections.

Charting Punchdrunk’s rise from the fringe to the mainstream, this encyclopaedia records the founding principles and mission of the company, documenting its evolving creative process and operational structures. It has been compiled to be useful to scholars and students from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, from secondary level through to doctoral research, and is intended for those with a fascination for theatre in general and immersive work in particular. Ultimately it is written for those who have dared to come play with Punchdrunk across the years. It is also offered to the curious; those adventurers ready and waiting to be immersed in Punchdrunk worlds.

Zielgruppe

General, Professional, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Machon, Josephine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theaterregie, Theaterproduktion

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

List of abbreviations

List of figures and tables

Timeline



ENCYCLOPAEDIA



Punchdrunk personnel

References and further reading

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Josephine Machon is Associate Professor in Contemporary Performance at Middlesex University, London. She is the author of Immersive Theatres: Intimacy and Immediacy in Contemporary Performance (2013) and (Syn)aesthetics: Redefining Visceral Performance (2009, 2011), and has published widely on Punchdrunk’s work and other experiential performance practice.