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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... THE ART OF WATCHING 8. Emotion 145 8.1 Boredom 146 8.2 Why Care? 149 8.3 Engaging Emotion 154 8.4 From Tonal Sympathy to Caring 157 8.5 The Knowledge Problem 160 10. 11. 12. 8.6 The Action Problem 162 8.7 Feeling xii Contents.
... THE ART OF WATCHING 8. Emotion 145 8.1 Boredom 146 8.2 Why Care? 149 8.3 Engaging Emotion 154 8.4 From Tonal Sympathy to Caring 157 8.5 The Knowledge Problem 160 10. 11. 12. 8.6 The Action Problem 162 8.7 Feeling xii Contents.
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... caring person, I expect you to pay attention to Antigone. You pay attention because you care, and paying attention allows you to care. Caring about people in the make-believe world of mimetic theater may strengthen your ability to care ...
... caring person, I expect you to pay attention to Antigone. You pay attention because you care, and paying attention allows you to care. Caring about people in the make-believe world of mimetic theater may strengthen your ability to care ...
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... caring watchers. But we cannot watch everything that goes on in the world, and we should not watch everything that ... caring about. He may slip into a spiral of despair if he does not find a way to watch himself in a caring way, to see ...
... caring watchers. But we cannot watch everything that goes on in the world, and we should not watch everything that ... caring about. He may slip into a spiral of despair if he does not find a way to watch himself in a caring way, to see ...
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... caring about? He must find the answer. His life depends on it. Theater is the art of finding human action worth watching, and it mostly does this by finding human characters worth caring about. We need to practice that art, on both ...
... caring about? He must find the answer. His life depends on it. Theater is the art of finding human action worth watching, and it mostly does this by finding human characters worth caring about. We need to practice that art, on both ...
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