Environmental theater
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Environmental theater is a style of performance for plays and musicals which attempts to immerse the audience in the performance. For example, some acting may happen in aisles. In the case of a black box theater acting platforms may even be built between audience section. Sometimes a performer will talk to, or otherise involve an audience member in a scene. This can be a real audience member, or an actor planted to appear as an audience member.
In promenade theater, there is little or no seating for the audience, and they watch the action happening among them, or may follow the performers around the space.[1]