Having studied theater forms of the past for the last few months, puts contemporary theater into perspective. One way of looking at the histories of theater, as we have spoken about in class, is that they had a kind of “building block” effect on the types of theater that came after them. Whether these types were formed from or in opposition to their predecessors. In regards to Immersive theater, though the form is relatively new, I feel as if there are many past forms that had begun the work of paving the way for different kinds of audience experiences (examples include Boal’s Forum Theater and the “sepct-actor experience”, and the rise of performance art). However, this doesn’t mean the form is not original, because it does create an experience that one has never historically had before in a theatrical setting.