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Playing Real

Lindsay Brandon Hunter
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alternate reality gaming
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fake
Greg Giesekam
media
Mimesis
NT Live
participant
realness
rehearsed
representational media
role play
Royal Shakespeare Company
Sarah Bay-Cheng
sincerity
The Bachelor
theater broadcasts
theatricality
True Tori
twenty-first century performance
Wooster Group

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  • ISBN 9780810143050
  • Weight: 250g
  • Dimensions: 149 x 226mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Feb 2021
  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief explores the integration and interaction of mimetic theatricality and representational media in twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. It brings together carefully chosen sites of performance - including live broadcasts of theatrical productions, reality television, and alternate-reality gaming - in which mediatization and mimesis compete and collude to represent the real to audiences. Lindsay Brandon Hunter reads such performances as forcing confrontation between notions of authenticity, sincerity, and spontaneity and their various others: the fake, the feigned, the staged, or the rehearsed.

Each site examined in Playing Real purports to show audiences something real—real theater, real housewives, real alternative scenarios-which is simultaneously visible as overtly constructed, adulterated by artifice and artificiality. The integration of mediatization and theatricality in these performances, Hunter argues, exploits the proclivities of both to conjure the real even as they risk corrupting the perception of authenticity by imbricating it with artifice and overt manipulation.

Although the performances analyzed obscure boundaries separating actual from virtual, genuine from artificial, and truth from fiction, Hunter rejects the notion that these productions imperil the 'real.' She insists on uncertainty as a fertile site for productive and pleasurable mischief-including relationships to realness and authenticity among both audience and participants.
About Lindsay Brandon Hunter
Lindsay Brandon Hunter teaches in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.

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