The Necessity of Theater: The Art of Watching and Being WatchedOxford University Press, 30.4.2008 - 272 sivua What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book, is as necessary - and as powerful - as language itself. Defining theater broadly, including sporting events and social rituals, he treats traditional theater as only one possibility in an art that - at its most powerful - can change lives and (as some peoples believe) bring a divine presence to earth. The Necessity of Theater analyzes the unique power of theater by separating it into the twin arts of watching and being watched, practiced together in harmony by watchers and the watched. Whereas performers practice the art of being watched - making their actions worth watching, and paying attention to action, choice, plot, character, mimesis, and the sacredness of performance space - audiences practice the art of watching: paying close attention. A good audience is emotionally engaged as spectators; their engagement takes a form of empathy that can lead to a special kind of human wisdom. As Plato implied, theater cannot teach us transcendent truths, but it can teach us about ourselves. Characteristically thoughtful, probing, and original, Paul Woodruff makes the case for theater as a unique form of expression connected to our most human instincts. The Necessity of Theater should appeal to anyone seriously interested or involved in theater or performance more broadly. |
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... 2.4 The Case of Music 58 2.5 The Game Analogy 59 2.6 Performing Hamlet 60 2.7 A Test Case: Antigone 62 3. Action Worth Watching: Plot 63 3.1 Value 65 3.2 Action 68 3.3 Plot Design 72 3.4 Pleasing the Emperor 74 4. Contents.
... 2.4 The Case of Music 58 2.5 The Game Analogy 59 2.6 Performing Hamlet 60 2.7 A Test Case: Antigone 62 3. Action Worth Watching: Plot 63 3.1 Value 65 3.2 Action 68 3.3 Plot Design 72 3.4 Pleasing the Emperor 74 4. Contents.
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... Antigone as she is led, protesting her innocence, to her death. If I can see that you are hanging onto every word of the scene, I will believe that you care about her. But I would be suspicious if you were not paying attention to this ...
... Antigone as she is led, protesting her innocence, to her death. If I can see that you are hanging onto every word of the scene, I will believe that you care about her. But I would be suspicious if you were not paying attention to this ...
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... Antigone instead of the Super Bowl. But it's not obvious that this is so. Besides, Antigone now belongs to an elite, although it was made for a popular theater; but the art of an elite is not the glue of a society. Art theater has a ...
... Antigone instead of the Super Bowl. But it's not obvious that this is so. Besides, Antigone now belongs to an elite, although it was made for a popular theater; but the art of an elite is not the glue of a society. Art theater has a ...
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... Antigone or Macbeth or The Seagull, and they have paid in advance for the experience. What does that have to do with the need to watch and be watched? Let us agree to call what you have in mind “art theater in the European tradition ...
... Antigone or Macbeth or The Seagull, and they have paid in advance for the experience. What does that have to do with the need to watch and be watched? Let us agree to call what you have in mind “art theater in the European tradition ...
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... Antigone.Yes, in watching the play, you care deeply for a doomed tragic figure, but you never try to change the outcome. Real emotions make you want to take action, but in the art theater there is no action for you to take. Contrast the ...
... Antigone.Yes, in watching the play, you care deeply for a doomed tragic figure, but you never try to change the outcome. Real emotions make you want to take action, but in the art theater there is no action for you to take. Contrast the ...
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