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The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia
Abstract
The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia is the definitive book on the company’s work to date, marking eighteen years of Punchdrunk’s existence. It provides the first full-scale, historical account of one of the world’s foremost immersive theatre companies, drawn from unrivalled access to the collective memory and archives of their core creative team. The playful encyclopaedic format, much like a Punchdrunk masked show, invites readers to create their own journey through the ideas, aesthetics, contexts, and practices that underpin Punchdrunk’s work. Interjections from Felix Barrett, Stephen Dobbie, Maxine Doyle, Peter Higgin, Beatrice Minns, Colin Nightingale and Livi Vaughan, among others, fill out the picture with in-depth reflections. Charting Punchdrunk’s rise from the fringe to the mainstream, this encyclopaedia records the founding principles and mission of the company, documenting its evolving creative process and operational structures. It has been compiled to be useful to scholars and students from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, from secondary level through to doctoral research, and is intended for those with a fascination for theatre in general and immersive work in particular. Ultimately it is written for those who have dared to come play with Punchdrunk across the years. It is also offered to the curious; those adventurers ready and waiting to be immersed in Punchdrunk worlds.
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“Many of these productions use 'books as starting points' to emphasise the power of reading to children (Machon, 2018, p. 101).”
From Agency and Intra-textual Co-creation in Punchdrunk Enrichment’s Immersive Story Worlds for Children (2024) · cites this paper as Machon, 2018
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“These productions draw on traditions of process drama, in which practitioners set in motion a fictional situation that focuses and motivates children's learning as they explore it from the inside through roleplay (Heathcote, 2002, p. 2; also Machon, 2018, p. 15).”
From Agency and Intra-textual Co-creation in Punchdrunk Enrichment’s Immersive Story Worlds for Children (2024) · cites this paper as Machon, 2018
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“Punchdrunk's procedural authorship seeks to maximise the potential of this embodied participation: the children's experience of the story world through their bodies in the presence of other 'performing and perceiving bodies' undergoing the experience alongside them (2018, p. 278).”
From Agency and Intra-textual Co-creation in Punchdrunk Enrichment’s Immersive Story Worlds for Children (2024) · cites this paper as Machon, 2018
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“However, the call to agency of the procedural authorship must be realised through a more physical deployment of agency by the child participants; stories become 'story worlds'; a term used to convey this sense of being able to act within the story with some of the agency of real-life (Machon, 2018, p. 239).”
From Agency and Intra-textual Co-creation in Punchdrunk Enrichment’s Immersive Story Worlds for Children (2024) · cites this paper as Machon, 2018
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“Their sets stay in the schools for a week after the actors' performance, so that the children can revisit, 'look around more and relish' them (Machon, 2018, p. 284).”
From Agency and Intra-textual Co-creation in Punchdrunk Enrichment’s Immersive Story Worlds for Children (2024) · cites this paper as Machon, 2018
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“A Small Tale is designed to be run by the class teacher, independently of the company's practitioners, who never visit the school in person, with props delivered to the school (Machon, 2018, p. 260).”
From Agency and Intra-textual Co-creation in Punchdrunk Enrichment’s Immersive Story Worlds for Children (2024) · cites this paper as Machon, 2018
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Metadata
- Authors
- Machon, J.
- Corresponding author
- Machon, Josephine
- ORCID
- Machon, Josephine
- Venue
- Routledge eBooks
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2018-12-07
- OpenAlex
- W2922170499
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 3.77
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Middlesex University Research Repository (Middlesex University Of London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Theatre and Performance Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Arts and Performance Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Music › Theater, Performance, and Music History
- Keywords
- Punchdrunk, immersive theatre, theatre history, creative process, theatre production, theatre archives, corporate history
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