Abstract
This chapter uses Possible Worlds Theory to analyse how the spectator responds to the complex collaborative experience provoked by Uninvited Guests’ production Make Better Please. It proposes that this philosophical framework facilitates a new way of considering the spectator’s creative input and generative response to the participatory performance event. Examining how Possible Worlds Theory is used by digital theorists to elucidate the processes of hypertext fiction, Swift argues that the theory provides tools and a language which also recognise and validate the operations of participation in performance. This new application of Possible Worlds Theory makes an important contribution to the consideration of the immersive and interactive experience of the active spectator.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2016 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Swift, E. (2016). Negotiating the Possible Worlds of Uninvited Guests’ Make Better Please: A Hypertextual Experience. In: Frieze, J. (eds) Reframing Immersive Theatre. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_7
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-36603-0
Online ISBN: 978-1-137-36604-7
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media StudiesLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)