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Theatre and Audience

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Theatre and Audience

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What does theatre do for – and to – those who witness, watch, and participate in it?

Theatre & Audience provides a provocative overview of the questions raised by theatrical encounters between performers and audiences. Focusing on European and North American theatre and its audiences in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, it explores belief in theatre's potential to influence, impact and transform. Illustrated by examples of performance which have sought to generate active audience involvement – from Brecht's epic theatre to the Blue Man Group – it seeks to unsettle any simple equation between audience participation and empowerment. Foreword by Lois Weaver.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface
Foreword; Lois Weaver
Difficulties of Definition
Models and Frames
Suspicion, Frustration and Contempt
Potent Orthodoxies
Playing with the Audience
Further Reading
Index.

Product details

Explore Methuen Drama
Published 16 Sep 2017
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 80
ISBN 9780230364608
Imprint Methuen Drama
Series Theatre And
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Helen Freshwater

Helen Freshwater is Reader in Theatre & Perfor…

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