description: How to do" arena theatre is knowledge already widely disseminated; this book examines why to do it. Until now, because principle had failed to inform practice, successful arena productions occurred mostly through pure chance. Arena theatre has never enjoyed the benefits of a consistent, enlightened theory to guide its work, or to explain its raison d'etre. This path-breaking book explicates such a theory. Placing arena's faded glory into context, and pointing out the failed logic which routinely has been applied to arena staging, this study designates and proclaims arena theatre as the "true modern theatre form.
language: English
title: Arena Theatre: Dimensions for the Space Age
titlecomplete: Arena Theatre: Dimensions for the Space Age
publisher: Whitston Pub Co Inc