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Jim Fishwick

Immersive Theatre and Westworld, Part Four: Audience Experience

Wherein we explore how to scaffold an audience’s experience of an immersive world, as seen in the HBO series Westworld.

12 min readSep 22, 2021

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A series of screenshots from a scene in Westworld, showing William at a futuristic train station, then in front of a large screen showing footage of a field, then in a room containing shelves and draws of old-timey clothing and pistols, accompanied by a host. William is then dressed in the old-timey clothes and enters a train carriage.

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Jim Fishwick

Immersive Theatre and Westworld, Part Three: Character

Wherein we explore how to create characters that support improvisation in experiential theatre, drawing on the HBO series Westworld.

6 min readSep 15, 2021

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Immersive Theatre and Westworld, Part Three: Character

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Jim Fishwick

Immersive Theatre and Westworld, Part Two: Audience Agency

Wherein we explore how to empower audience members to make narrative decisions, using examples from the HBO series Westworld.

11 min readSep 7, 2021

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On the left is a woman’s arm, in a long pale blue sleeve, reaching out to take a white can of beans from a man’s hand in a black glove.

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Jim Fishwick

Immersive Theatre and Westworld, Part One: Narrative Structure

Wherein we explore how the narrative principles of the fictional theme park Westworld can be applied to experiential theatre.

8 min readSep 1, 2021

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A red steam train pulls into the small town of Sweetwater..

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Jim Fishwick

Stop Interrupting Each Oth-

This is the (lightly edited) transcript of a talk I gave the other week as part of Improv Theatre Sydney’s lecture series Rant Academy…

6 min readAug 15, 2021

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Stop Interrupting Each Oth-

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Jim Fishwick

Helm Stories: The Mysterious Green Door

This story was written in conjunction with visitors to Hamilton Gardens, as part of the Hamilton Garden Arts Festival. Each person was…

4 min readMar 2, 2021

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A faded green door in the middle of a stone wall

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Jim Fishwick

Helm Stories: The Compass Thief

This story was written in conjunction with visitors to Hamilton Gardens, as part of the Hamilton Garden Arts Festival. Each person was…

3 min readMar 2, 2021

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A hand holding up a nautical compass, in front of a large stretch of ocean. In the background is a ship.

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Jim Fishwick

Who (and what, how, why) Is The Saboteur?

Five Comedians. One Betrayal. Zero Trust.

7 min readFeb 3, 2021

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Three performers on stage, bathed in purple light. Two of them look suspiciously at a third, whose back is to us.

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ACMI LABS

Updating the ACMI Games Lab with a new selection of videogames

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15 min readJun 22, 2018

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Updating the ACMI Games Lab with a new selection of videogames

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Scene from a Chat

On Omnivorous Improvisors

This is the first conversation in our new series Scene from a Chat: Advancing and Extending Impro/v in Australasia. Two improvisors chat on…

16 min readJun 3, 2018

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On Omnivorous Improvisors

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Jim Fishwick

Jim Fishwick

Performer person, wordplay wonk, alliteration… alligator… General Manager at Jetpack Theatre. ex-ACMI. they/them. The museum logos article was a fluke, sorry!

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