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JOURNAL OF TOURISM AND CULTURAL CHANGE 501 GGB Staff. (2015). Macau special report: Upcoming Cotai projects. Global Gaming Business. Retrieved from http:// ggbmagazine.com/issue/vol-14-no-10-october-2015/article/macau-special-report-upcoming-cotai-projects Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., & Norenzayan, A. (2010). Most people are not WEIRD. Nature, 466(29), 29. doi:10.1038/ 466029a Totally Gaming. (2015, December 1). Junket fraud allegations increase Macau woe. Totally Gaming. Retrieved from http://www.totallygaming.com/news/casino/junket-fraud-allegations-increase-macau-woe Brett Abarbanel Head, Social & Recreational Gambling, UCLA Gambling Studies Program, University of California, Los Angeles, USA BAbarbanel@mednet.ucla.edu © 2016, Brett Abarbanel http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2016.1149901 Theatricality, dark tourism and ethical spectatorship: absent others, by Emma Willis, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, xiv, 237 pages, US$110.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-137-32264-7 Trauma, tragedy, spectacle: how do theatre and the spectator respond? How is suffering ani- mated on stage, and is it ethical to stage and re-stage it to turn the audience into active wit- nesses? In this monograph, Emma Willis gives a response from theatre studies to the dark (tourism) turn. It is variously elegant, philosophical, engaging, immersive and disturbing – as she intends it to be. It is, thus, a challenging and unsettling but important read, rather like a self-imposed visit to Auschwitz. Willis’s thesis is that theatre and dark tourism converge about the haunted