Real-ish: audiences, feeling, and the production of realness in contemporary performance

Preface: A Crisis of the Real?

Feeling Real: Realness, Affect, Audiences

"Everything is True. Some Things are Scripted": Documentary Practice and the Presentation of Multiple Truths

Talking to, at, and with Audiences: The Politics of Participation

"You Will Long Remember": the Nostalgic Real in Site-Specific Historical Re-enactment

Constructing Immersive Experiences for "Real" Engagement

Immersion and Exertion: Audiences, Feeling-Labour and the Production of Real-ish-ness

Coda: How Real is it Anyway?