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Meta-Musings

Meditations on Relevance

HER CooperSeptember 11, 2017February 1, 2019

As everyone knows too well, the city of Houston (and its many neighbors—Fort Bend and Baytown and Port Arthur and

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Audience Psychology

Meisner for the Immersive Audience

HER CooperAugust 28, 2017

Last week, I examined the Meisner technique for the immersive actor. I am particularly excited by the genre’s promise of

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Immersive Acting

Meisner for the Immersive Actor

HER CooperAugust 15, 2017August 15, 2017

Back in my graduate school days, when I had ivory-tower wishes and PhD dreams, an advisor told me to think

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Escape Rooms Immersive Acting

100 Séances Later…

HER CooperAugust 5, 2017January 31, 2019

Tonight at 8 PM, Strange Bird Immersive celebrates its 100th performance of The Man From Beyond: Houdini Séance Escape Room.

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Immersive Theatre 101

The Activity Spectrum

HER CooperJuly 27, 2017October 3, 2022

As I’ve claimed before, “Rule #2: The audience is active” is the game-changer in the genre. Theatre is good fun,

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Escape Rooms

Hard Mode: Making an Immersive Theatre Escape Room

HER CooperJuly 21, 2017July 5, 2023

This is gonna be a long one, but an important one, so strap in. It’s time to tackle escape rooms.

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Immersive Acting

Immersive Theatre’s Superpower, Part 4: Tales from The Man From Beyond

HER CooperJuly 10, 2017February 1, 2019

In The Man From Beyond, our acting style is like jazz. We have a set structure and certain beats to

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Immersive Acting

Immersive Theatre’s Superpower, Part 3: The Primacy of Text

HER CooperJuly 1, 2017February 1, 2019

In traditional theatre, directors and actors talk a lot about subtext. After all, the playwright has set the text for

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Immersive Acting

Immersive Theatre’s Superpower, Part 2: Improv and not Improv

HER CooperJune 20, 2017February 1, 2019

When it comes to wielding the superpower of response, nothing compares to improv theatre. Improv’s life-blood is being responsive. It’s

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Immersive Acting

Immersive Theatre’s Superpower: Responding, or You Don’t Have To Pretend Like That Didn’t Just Happen, Part 1

HER CooperJune 8, 2017February 1, 2019

We’ve all been there before: our hero on stage is tearing up a letter, but then an errant piece drops

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