From Narrative to Worldbuilding: Expanding Theatre Beyond the Stage

About the workshop

What happens when we move beyond telling a story to creating a world that audiences can enter, explore, and participate in? This lecture-workshop explores how theatrical projects can expand beyond the stage through immersive environments, site-specific performance, and interactive experiences. Drawing on examples from immersive theatre, alternate reality games, and participatory art, we will examine how spaces, objects, digital media, and live encounters can become part of a larger fictional world. Participants will be invited to rethink their own projects, shifting from a focus on narrative and spectatorship toward worldbuilding, embodied experience, and audience agency.