LOOP: The Creation of Immersive Theatre on Whodunit

Abstract

The article reflects on a creative practice and lesson learned from immersive theatre - “LOOP: The Immersive Theater”. This performance’s concept originates with questions upon social perception and judgment of others in the society. Immersive theatre appears as one of many popular techniques in engaging audience with performance. It focuses on atmosphere, emphasizes on site-specific, blurs boundaries between audience and actors, offers audience experience of events around them as a story. This immersive form encourages the audience to interact, engage and immerse with the events emotionally and physically by allowing them to respond to the situations based on their own instincts and interests, letting them choose and search for answers as well as how to perceive the stories. ‘LOOP’ brings out that experiences through a murder situation in a secret bar as in the classical detective story or Whodunit. The goal of this article is to study and extract knowledge from making an immersive theatre in three areas of production management, script creation and directing, and acting in immersive theatre.