Kelsey Jacobson is assistant professor at Queen’s University and co-founding director of the Centre for Spectatorship and Audience Research.

“In this excellent book, Kelsey Jacobson presents a significant contribution to the fields of both audience research and performance studies. Its key originality is the focus throughout on how a sense of real-ish-ness is constructed by audiences – this is both new and deeply urgent. Reading this book helped me to understand our 'post-truth' era in a deeper, more critically nuanced way.” Kirsty Sedgman, University of Bristol and author of The Reasonable Audience: Theatre Etiquette, Behaviour Policing, and the Live Performance Experience

Kelsey Jacobson is assistant professor at Queen’s University and co-founding director of the Centre for Spectatorship and Audience Research.

“In this excellent book, Kelsey Jacobson presents a significant contribution to the fields of both audience research and performance studies. Its key originality is the focus throughout on how a sense of real-ish-ness is constructed by audiences – this is both new and deeply urgent. Reading this book helped me to understand our 'post-truth' era in a deeper, more critically nuanced way.” Kirsty Sedgman, University of Bristol and author of The Reasonable Audience: Theatre Etiquette, Behaviour Policing, and the Live Performance Experience