Feeling theatre
By: Martin Welton
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780230245631
Subjects: PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning; Theater; Psychology; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; Acting; Actors; Psychological aspects; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General; Theater audiences; Emotions (Philosophy)
Other titles: Feeling theater
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Shows of Feeling; title: Feeling Your Way in the Dark; title: The Sensuousness of Silence; title: Somewhere, Somehow; title: Bringing the Weather Indoors; title: Afterword.