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Theatre and its audiences : reimagining the relationship in times of crisis / Kate Craddock and Helen Freshwater.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Methuen drama agitations: text, politics and performancesPublisher: London ; New York : Methuen Drama, 2024Description: 210 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781350339170
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Theatre and its audiencesDDC classification:
  • 792.0941 C842t 23/eng/20230821
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.W6 .C73 2024
Contents:
Introduction: conventions, interruptions and change -- Performance's place in time: on duration, speed and intervals -- Spatial relationships: exclusivity and inclusivity -- Technologies, connection and copresence -- Honesty, secrets and lies: how theatre communicates with audiences -- On the present and future needs of audiences: care, access and sustainability.
Summary: "Written in the aftermath of the Covid crisis, this book brings the past, present and future of theatre-going together as it explores the nature of the relationships between performance practitioners, arts organisations and their audiences. The book combines historical and current cultural sector perspectives as it reflects on how historical conventions have conditioned present day expectations of theatre-going in the UK. Part vision, part provocation, part critical interrogation, this book offers an insightful appraisal of past norms and assumptions to set out a bold argument about where we should go from here"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: conventions, interruptions and change -- Performance's place in time: on duration, speed and intervals -- Spatial relationships: exclusivity and inclusivity -- Technologies, connection and copresence -- Honesty, secrets and lies: how theatre communicates with audiences -- On the present and future needs of audiences: care, access and sustainability.

"Written in the aftermath of the Covid crisis, this book brings the past, present and future of theatre-going together as it explores the nature of the relationships between performance practitioners, arts organisations and their audiences. The book combines historical and current cultural sector perspectives as it reflects on how historical conventions have conditioned present day expectations of theatre-going in the UK. Part vision, part provocation, part critical interrogation, this book offers an insightful appraisal of past norms and assumptions to set out a bold argument about where we should go from here"-- Provided by publisher.

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