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Book SynopsisReal-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.
Trade Review“In this excellent book, Kelsey Jacobson presents a significant contribution to the fields of both audience research and performance studies. Its key originality is the focus throughout on how a sense of real-ish-ness is constructed by audiences – this is both new and deeply urgent. Reading this book helped me to understand our 'post-truth' era in a deeper, more critically nuanced way.” Kirsty Sedgman, University of Bristol and author of The Reasonable Audience: Theatre Etiquette, Behaviour Policing, and the Live Performance Experience
