Audience Participation Essays on Inclusion in Performance

Subjects:

• The Arts » Theater

Reviews:

• [V]aluable addition to our knowledge and understanding of theatre audiences.
  —Participation 5/1/2003
• Bringing together a range of diverse essays on a comparatively new field of study, Kattwinkel explores the phenomenon of the active (not passive) spectator and those styles of drama and dance aimed at engaging the audience directly in the theatrical event....Uniformly well written, the essays focus on various periods and concepts including kinespeak, practices of looking, feminist performance, the audience in cyberspace, English pantomime, 18th-century British theater, Rasa, and artists and groups like Cie Felix Ruckert, Penn and Teller, The Living Theatre, the Living Stage Theatre, and the Crimson Players. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, scholars, and performance professionals.
  —Choice 3/1/2004
• "...storytellers in need of material specifically related to holidays should find sufficient fodder here to warrant purchase."
  —School Library Journal 5/1/2009

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
  Introduction
  Ethics of the Witness: The Participatory Dances of Cie Felix Ruckert by Joshua Abrams
  Reaction Tactics: Redefining Postmodern Spectator Response and Expectations by Katherine Adamenko
  Still Signaling through the Flames: The Living Theatre's Use of Audience Participation in the 1990s by Davie Callaghan
  It Matters for whom You Dance: Audience Participation in Rasa Theory by Uttara Asha Coorlawala
  Audience Participation in the Eighteenth-Century London Theatre by Judith W. Fisher
  The Challenge of Participation: Audiences at Living Stage Theatre Company by Susan C. Haedicke
  Manipulation of the Mind: Fiction in the Performances of Penn and Teller by Susan Kattwinkel
  Looking at Looking (at Looking): Experiments in the Interrogation of Spectating by Joanne Klein
  The Audience in Cyberspace: Audience-Performer Interactivity in Online Performances by Nina LeNoir
  Once upon a Time: The Story of the Pantominme Audience by Dawn Lewcock
  Audience at Risk: Space and Spectators at Feminist Performance by Judith Sebesta
  "Walking in the Steps of Your Forefathers": Locating the Actor and the Audience in Derry's Siege Pageant by Patrick Tuite
  Community-Based Theatre: A Participatory Model for Social Transformation by Mark S Weinberg
  The (Oc)cult of Personality: Initiating the Audience into The Edwardian Mysteries by J. Lawton Winslade
  Index