Feeling Theatre [electronic resource] /
Welton, Martin.author.
Why is it that in going to see plays we are also touched or moved by them, and is there more than metaphor involved in such claims? Considering these and other questions, this book examines a range of contemporary performance works in which performers and their audiences occupy a shared realm of feelings, in which the play is not always the thing.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Introduction -- Shows of Feeling -- Feeling Your Way in the Dark -- The Sensuousness of Silence -- Somewhere, Somehow -- Bringing the Weather Indoors -- Afterword.
Why is it that in going to see plays we are also touched or moved by them, and is there more than metaphor involved in such claims? Considering these and other questions, this book examines a range of contemporary performance works in which performers and their audiences occupy a shared realm of feelings, in which the play is not always the thing.
Theater—History.
Performing arts.
Theater.
Motion pictures and television.
Theatre History.
Performing Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Screen Studies.