Ebook: Real-ish: Audiences, Feeling, and the Production of Realness in Contemporary Performance

How realness is perceived, produced, and felt by contemporary audiences – and the stakes of
feeling real in a post-truth world.

Real-ish investigates how realness in performance is perceived, produced, and felt by contemporary audiences. Focusing on documentary, participatory, historical, and immersive theatre pieces, the book considers how audience experiences exist both as products of the performances’ real source material and as real products in their own right.