Eye Contact Mesmeric Revelations in Baltimore Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • In Baltimore in 2015, Submersive Productions staged The Mesmeric Revelations! of Edgar Allan Poe, an immersive spectacle based on the women populating Poes fiction and personal life. Also in Baltimore in 2015, Freddie Gray, an African American man, was killed by Baltimore police, leading to mass protests and civil unrest. A striking coincidence between the two events suggests that immersive spectatorship intensifies our political experience of the social forces that make us subjects, indicating new ways for theatre to address a nation that has always been fractious and fractured.

published proceedings

  • TDR-THE DRAMA REVIEW-THE JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE STUDIES

author list (cited authors)

  • Ball, J.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • Ball, James RII

publication date

  • January 2018