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a method of post-show reflection for teams to engage in continuous improvement
The stakes of Navy SEAL missions are often life and death. The price of failure is high. This is why SEALs implement a practice of continual improvement, including an After Action Review. If you want to keep improving your work, take a page from the Navy SEAL playbook.
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Interactive performances need spects. It only makes sense that you also need spects when you train. During rehearsals and performances, the spect wrangler coordinates the spects. When you’re training and there isn’t a spect wrangler, it’s up to you.
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Audience participation is nothing new. Magicians, comics, clowns, and street performers have been dragging “volunteers” into their acts for years. They don’t give their victims much of a choice. To be fair, their purpose isn’t usually to empower participants; it’s to have a foil to play off of. As an inter-actor, your agenda is different. You’re looking for a participant who will become a co-creator of the story.
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a performance where the audience is surrounded by the world of the story
Immersive theatre embeds the audience in the story world. They may sit in seats or move freely through the space. There is often a degree of spectacle. The setting is visually compelling, often with a significant sound design. It may be an elaborate set, a real-world location, or a virtual world. In any case, the audience is surrounded by the environment of the story.
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There are many forms of performance where interactive skills are used. Before exploring them, let’s clarify terminology. The word “interactive” and “immersive” sometimes get used interchangeably, but they describe very different things. Immersion is when the story world surrounds you. Interactivity is when participants and performers co-create the story. Both can exist within the same experience to varying degrees. The amount of interactivity and immersion varies by form. With that in mind, let’s consider the many kinds of experiences where interactive skills can be employed.
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a performed story co-created by spect-actors and inter-actors
Interactive performance is characterized by performers and participants co-creating a story while playing roles. The story may be based on a written scenario or improvised from nothing. In any case, spect-actors contribute to the narrative and affect how it plays out.
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information for the audience about how to become a participant
An invitation to play tells the audience at an interactive performance how participation works. For those who want to play, it clarifies how to volunteer. For those who don’t want to play, it lets them know they won’t be singled out to participate. And for those on the fence, it makes the prospect of volunteering less terrifying by letting them know that they can change their mind.
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