Audience as Performer: The changing role of theatre audiences in the twenty-first century

By Caroline Heim

Book Overview

Audience as Performer proposes that in the theatre, there are two troupes of performers: the actors and the audience. Although academics have scrutinised how audiences respond, make meaning and co-create while watching a performance, little research has considered the behaviour of the theatre audience as a performance in and of itself. This insightful book describes how an audience performs through its myriad gestural, vocal and paralingual actions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138796913
• ISBN13: 9781138796911
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"