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The Audience Experience: A Critical Analysis of Audiences in the Performing Arts Edited by Jennifer Radbourne, Hilary Glow, and Katya Johanson (review)

Finally, any assessment of this book must also note that Lev-Aladgem makes a special contribution to the English-language literature on participatory theatre projects in Israel. There are others who have written about such projects—notably Aida Nasrallah, Lee Perlman, Sonja Kuftinec, Chen Alon, Shifra Schonmann, James Thompson, Michael Balfour, and Jenny Hughes—yet Lev-Aladgem’s book greatly broadens the existing literature, with an eye to many more of Israel’s marginalized communities. Most of the existing literature focuses on theatre projects that address the tension between Jews and Palestinians in Israel, an area of scholarship that is important and intriguing, but an emphasis that fails to capture the wide array of the applied theatre work happening in Israel. One of Lev-Aladgem’s chapters, in which she analyzes some joint Jewish–Palestinian initiatives, contributes to this specific body of literature, but her other eight chapters invite theatre scholars to better understand many more of the social–political tensions in Israel, with an eye to other marginalized populations.