Audience participation : essays on inclusion in performance / edited by Susan Kattwinkel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kattwinkel, Susan.

Series:

Contributions in drama and theatre studies 0163-3821 ; no. 101.

Contributions in drama and theatre studies, 0163-3821 ; no. 101

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--Audiences.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

xviii, 221 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Contents:

1 Ethics of the Witness: The Participatory Dances of Cie Felix Ruckert / Joshua Abrams 1

2 Reaction Tactics: Redefining Postmodern Spectator Response and Expectations / Katherine Adamenko 15

3 Still Signaling through the Flames: The Living Theatre's Use of Audience Participation in the 1990s / David Callaghan 23

4 It Matters for whom You Dance: Audience Participation in Rasa Theory / Uttara Asha Coorlawala 37

5 Audience Participation in the Eighteenth-Century London Theatre / Judith W. Fisher 55

6 The Challenge of Participation: Audiences at Living Stage Theatre Company / Susan C. Haedicke 71

7 Manipulation of the Mind: Fiction in the Performances of Penn and Teller / Susan Kattwinkel 89

8 Looking at Looking (at Looking): Experiments in the Interrogation of Spectating / Joanne Klein 101

9 The Audience in Cyberspace: Audience-Performer Interactivity in Online Performances / Nina LeNoir 115

10 Once upon a Time: The Story of the Pantomime Audience / Dawn Lewcock 133

11 Audience at Risk: Space and Spectators at Feminist Performance / Judith Sebesta 149

12 "Walking in the Steps of Your Forefathers": Locating the Actor and the Audience in Derry's Siege Pageant / Patrick Tuite 167

13 Community-Based Theatre: A Participatory Model for Social Transformation / Mark S. Weinberg 185

14 The (Oc)cult of Personality: Initiating the Audience into The Edwardian Mysteries / J. Lawton Winslade 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0313316716

OCLC:

50422922