Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

By:

Nicholas Ridout

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Theatre and Performance Theory

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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.

Author Biography:

Nicholas Ridout is Lecturer in Performance at the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London.

Release date Australia

August 17th, 2006

Author

Nicholas Ridout

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

206

Series

Theatre and Performance Theory

Dimensions

140x216x12

ISBN-13

9780521617567

Product ID

2398094

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