Audience Participation in Theatre [electronic resource] : Aesthetics of the Invitation /
White, G.author.
This book asks that we consider the practices that facilitate audience participation on equal terms with other elements of the theatre maker's art; it offers a theoretical basis for this new approach, illustrated by examples from diverse participatory performances.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Audience Participation -- 2. Why 'Aesthetics'? -- 3. The Practice and Theory of Audience Participation -- 4. Emancipating Spectators -- 5. Subjectivity as Material and Medium -- 6. The Structure of the Book -- PART I: PROCESS AND PROCEDURE -- 7. Antony Jackson and Frame Analysis -- 8. Goffman's Frame Analysis -- 9. The Frame Analysis of Audience Participation -- 10. Roles and Resources -- 11. Working Inside the Frame -- 12. Control and Social Structure -- 13. Horizons of Participation -- 14. The Aesthetic Meaning of Agency -- 15. Armadillo Theatre -- 16. Analysing Armadillo's Procedure -- PART II: RISK AND RATIONAL ACTION -- 17. Risk in Performance -- 18. Real and Perceived Risk -- 19. Actual Risk in Audience Participation -- 20. Horizons of Risk -- 21. Risk Management as Procedural Authorship -- 22. Ethical Issues in the Management of Real and Perceived Risk -- 23. Protecting Participants into Involvement -- 24. Reading the Audience Participant -- 25. Performativity and the Public Self -- 26. Know One's Fool -- PART III: IRRATIONAL INTERACTIONS -- 27. Emotion in Audience Participation -- 28. Embodied Cognition and the Enactive Theory of Mind -- 29. Empathy and Intersubjectivity in Audience Participation -- 30. Laughter -- 31. Crowds -- 32. Liminality and Communitas -- 33. Hypnosis -- 34. Procedural Authorship and Harnessing Intersubjectivity -- 35. De La Guarda's Liminoid Participation -- 36. Embodiment, Enculturation and Meaning -- PART IV: ACCEPTING THE INVITATION -- 37. Theatre Audiences and Feedback Loops -- 38. A New Horizon -- 39. Weather on the Horizon -- 40. Gaining Roles and Responsibilities -- 41. Experiential Learning -- 42. Reflexivity and Witnessing -- 43. Self-Awareness and Self-Forgetfulness -- 44. Autopoiesis, Allopoiesis, Heteropoiesis -- 45. Tim Crouch: The Author and I, Malvolio -- Conclusion -- 46. The Procedural Author -- 47. The Aesthetic Theory -- 48. Making Special -- 49. Patterning and Elaborating Participation -- 50. The Aesthetic Regime.
This book asks that we consider the practices that facilitate audience participation on equal terms with other elements of the theatre maker's art; it offers a theoretical basis for this new approach, illustrated by examples from diverse participatory performances.
Performing arts.
Theater.
Motion pictures and television.
Aesthetics.
Performing Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Screen Studies.
Aesthetics.