Theory for theatre studies : emotion / Peta Tait.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tait, Peta, 1953- author.

Series:

Theory for theatre studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions in the performing arts.

Physical Description:

viii, 188 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021.

Summary:

"Emotion explores how emotion is communicated in drama, theatre and contemporary performance and therefore in society. From Aristotle and Shakespeare to Stanislavski, from Brecht to Caryl Churchill, drama and theatre are revealed to inform but also to warn about the emotions. The term 'emotion' encompasses the emotions, emotional feelings, affect and mood, and the book explores how these concepts are embodied and experienced within theatrical practice and explained in theory. Since emotion is artistically staged, its composition and impact can be described and analysed and in relation to interdisciplinary approaches. Students and other readers are encouraged to consider how emotion is dramatically, aurally, and visually developed to create innovative performance. Case studies include productions of Medea, Twelfth Night, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Ibsen's A Doll's House, and performances by Mabou Mines, Robert Lepage, Rimini Protokoll, Anna Deavere Smith, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Marina Abramovic and The Wooster Group. By way of these detailed case studies, readers will appreciate new methodologies and approaches for their own exploration of 'emotion' as a performance component"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The emotions

Emotional feelings

Affect and its theory

Mood

Cultural complexities and empathy

SECTION ONE Legacies and case studies

Aristotle on tragic pity and Euripides's Medea

Shakespeare's comic lovers: Performing the passions

The actor's paradox: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century staging

Stanislavski's Emotion Memory and realist theatre

Controversial psychologies in Method Acting

Brecht's separations: Theatre for a scientific age

Brecht's political emotions: The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Emotional practice from Forum Theatre to rasaboxes

SECTION TWO Affect and case studies

Emotional feeling to affect in A Doll's House

Affect and technology: Live art and spectacle

Real identities and political affect

Empathy enabled: Empathy Museum to Back to Back

Suffering in Jane Harrison's Stolen

Feeling sound and images: Robert Lepage's Needles and Opium and 887

SECTION THREE Mood and case studies

Mysterious aesthetic

Audience expectations and The Lion King

Ambiance from Societas Raffaello Sanzio

Music functions and Rimini Protokoll's Brain Projects

Economic mood dis/orders: Alladeen to Dear Evan Hansen

Immoral objects and The Wooster Group

Share economies and Marina Abramovic

Collaborative eco-moods

Anticipation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Tait, Peta, Theory for theatre studies

ISBN:

9781350030848

1350030848

9781350030855

1350030856

OCLC:

1159637426

Publisher Number:

99986909225