Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. 2. Real People Part 1: Winning and/or Losing the Game of Life in Autobiographical Performance – Winners and Losers 23
6. 3. Real People Part 2: Insecurity and Ethical Failure in the Encounter with Strangers – 100% Vancouver, RARE, and Polyglotte 48
7. 4. Real Words: Reproducing Life in Remediated Verbatim Theatre – Seeds and 300 TAPES 91
8. 5. Real Space: The Insecure Geographies of Site-Specific Audio Walks – Garden/ /Suburbia and Landline 130
9. 6. Real Bodies Part 1: The Traumatic Real in Immersive Performances of Political Crisis and Insecurity – Counting Sheep and Foreign Radical 169
10. 7. Real Bodies Part 2: Narcissistic Spectatorship in Theatrical “Haunted Houses” of Solo Immersive Performance – Everyman 210
11. 8. Coda: Theatres of the Real in the Age of Post-Reality 226
12. Notes 235
13. Bibliography 261
14. Index 275