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Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

Ridout, Nicholas

Paperback

Series: Theatre and Performance Theory

Technical Theater

ISBN10: 0521617561
ISBN13: 9780521617567
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 17 2006
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? In trying to answer these questions - usually ignored by theatre scholarship but of enduring interest to theatre professionals and audiences alike - Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. This book focuses on the theatrical encounter - those events in which actor and audience come face to face in a strangely compromised and alienated intimacy - arguing that the modern theatre has become a place where we entertain ourselves by experimenting with our feelings about work, social relations and about feelings themselves.

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