Locating the audience : how people found value in National Theatre Wales / Kirsty Sedgman ; [foreword by John E. McGrath].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sedgman, Kirsty, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Theatre Wales.

Theater audiences--Wales.

Theater audiences.

Social values--Wales.

Social values.

Wales.

Physical Description:

xv, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Intellect, 2016.

Summary:

How do audiences experience live performances? What is gained when a national theatre is born? These questions and more are the subject of Locating the Audience - the first in-depth study of how people form relationships with a new theatre company. Investigating the inaugural season of National Theatre Wales, Kirsty Sedgman explores how different people felt about the way their communities were engaged and their places performed by two productions: For Mountain, Sand & Sea and The Persians. Mapping the complex interplay between experience and identity, the book presents a significant contribution to our contemporary project of defining cultural value. Rather than understanding value as an end point -'impact' - Sedgman demonstrates that cultural value can better be understood as a process. By talking to audiences, capturing pleasures and disappointments, Locating the Audience shows the meaning-making process in action. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Why (and How to) Study Theatre Audiences? 1

Chapter 2 Dancing into a Minefield: The Launch of National Theatre Wales 27

Chapter 3 'Local' Theatre for 'Local' People: Framing Audience Response 47

Chapter 4 For Mountain, Sand & Sea 73

Chapter 5 The Persians 121

Chapter 6 'Do You Think the Audience Will Get It?' 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and index.

ISBN:

9781783205714

1783205717

OCLC:

939390545