{"product_id":"realish-9780228016403","title":"Realish","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReal-ish\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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 \u003cem\u003eThe Reasonable Audience: Theatre Etiquette, Behaviour Policing, and the Live Performance Experience\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400165368151,"sku":"9780228016403","price":70.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/realish-9780228016403","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}