Audience Participation in Theatre

Evolutions of the Invitation
2. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-69887-3
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 257 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

This new textbook edition of situates the text in evolving theory, emerging practice, and changing contexts, re-establishing itself as the key reference point in its field.  An updated review of the literature and a new chapter develops its original argument with respect to historical change in how audiences and their expectations are constituted, and changes to how participation is invited, mediated and valued.

Zielgruppe

Upper undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Gareth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. -Chapter1.- Process and Procedure. -Chapter2.- Risk and Rational Action. - Chapter3.-Irrational Interactions. -chapter 4.-Accepting the Invitation. -Chapter 5.-Evolutions of the invitation. -Conclusion. -Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Gareth White is Reader in Theatre and Performance at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK. His publications include , exploring the idea of the aesthetic in performance practice with social aims, and , examining how performance that situates the audience participant within difficult or impossible dilemmas creates complex embodied meaning.