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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... bring off a successful time of watching and being watched. We are speaking of a double art that lights the dark stage. The Unwatched Play Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for Godot. Their waiting fascinates me once again; it commands ...
... bring off a successful time of watching and being watched. We are speaking of a double art that lights the dark stage. The Unwatched Play Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for Godot. Their waiting fascinates me once again; it commands ...
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... bring their friends to watch him, even when they think he is asleep. Terce finds himself living the nightmare of an actor on a stage from which there is no exit, on which the light never dims. And he lives with an audience who will ...
... bring their friends to watch him, even when they think he is asleep. Terce finds himself living the nightmare of an actor on a stage from which there is no exit, on which the light never dims. And he lives with an audience who will ...
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... growing apart. If they found a theater to watch together, that theater would give them a shared life. The art of theater brings people together—or apart. Love without Witness The wedding was legal, let there be Lighting the Dark Stage 7.
... growing apart. If they found a theater to watch together, that theater would give them a shared life. The art of theater brings people together—or apart. Love without Witness The wedding was legal, let there be Lighting the Dark Stage 7.
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... bring together the various kinds of theater to see what they have in common and what divides them from one another. We can then ask questions like: What is the distinctive effect of mimesis in theater? Or: How does introducing a contest ...
... bring together the various kinds of theater to see what they have in common and what divides them from one another. We can then ask questions like: What is the distinctive effect of mimesis in theater? Or: How does introducing a contest ...
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... bring people together by means of shared experiences.You who have bought this book because you love theater may be disturbed by the thought that the prevailing theater of our day is football or soccer. Very well. Perhaps we would be a ...
... bring people together by means of shared experiences.You who have bought this book because you love theater may be disturbed by the thought that the prevailing theater of our day is football or soccer. Very well. Perhaps we would be a ...
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