Space in Performance Making Meaning in the Theatre

Name: Space in Performance Making Meaning in the Theatre
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ISBN: 9780472087693

ISBN-10: 047208769X

ISBN-13: 9780472087693

Edition: 2000

Authors: Gay McAuley

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Theater, as distinct from other dramatic media, is essentially a relationship between performer, spectator, and the space in which both come together. Space in Performance examines the way theater buildings function to frame the performance event, the organization of audience and practitioner spaces within the building, the nature of the stage and the modes of representation it facilitates, and the relationship between the real space of the theater and the fictional places that are evoked. The book's theoretical and methodological framework is both semiotic and phenomenological, based in part from the seminal work of Anne Ubersfeld, from direct observation of the rehearsal process, and…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 12/8/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Gay McAuley is Honorary Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at the University of Sydney




Introduction: Space as Theatrical Signifier



The Physical Space



Energized Space: Moving Bodies



Space and Performance Structure



Objects in Performance



Space in the Written Text



The Spectator in the Space


Afterword


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index