a term borrowed from Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal, who theorised it in the 1970s with his “Theatre of the Oppressed”. It describes someone who is neither a passive spectator nor a full actor, but occupies an in-between position: moving, interacting, and participating in the experience without being its main character. Backlight uses this concept to describe the place of the audience in its VR experiences, where one is too active to be a mere spectator, but never sole master of the narrative.