Theatre for all the senses Convener(s): hannah ringhamParticipants: Catherine eckels micheal morris nina steiger anna newell kim caston david jubb stella hall pippa ellis william wan ymi yokowyma Hannah ringham shelley hastings steven hodgeSummary of discussion, conclusions and/or recommendations:shows which stimulated all of the senses‘Pattabom’ ‘couriousess for the scent’ ‘oraculous’all of these shows had intimate moments e.g eating something. a couple took place outside the theatrequestions that came up from thisdoing a show with a small group –enconomic implicationsSite specfic shows or a new term ‘immursive theatre’ the difference lies in that this theatre is not simply about the spacediscussed ‘living trhatre’ which was group in the sixties that took place in the moment naked people running around audience get naked. is that interesting well obviously yes and then no to consider how to structure the evening allowing the audience to invest and move in itin this immursive theare audience are ‘invited to play a game’ consider a sense of place questions on how to control the audience within all thisa sense of eventa sense of event…..place the theatre where the theatre is housed how that is a sociale event a place of discussion open to critism…shunt theatre collective place where audience come and pay and watch process take place hang about in bar afterwards to disscussbac doing shows where people go to theatre and then physically take theatre into outside world eg show starts get in a car whole world becomes showimmerised in something find sense of selfcompared theatre of senses with comedy discussion based on a loss of ritual beginnings ie what is no longer alive all theatre should stimulate all the sensesaction further reading suggested nlp neuro linguistic programming coming down to shunt bar for a drink London bridge vaults , continue discussion luch ‘theatre is anything which engages both eyes and ears’ john cage said that. what about the other bits ears eyes nose boy taste all must continue to be articulated