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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... stage-worthy translations and attempted to elucidate the ethical concept that is central to ancient tragedy— reverence, which is the opposite of the tragic vice of hubris. This pair of virtue and vice has a use in political thinking ...
... stage-worthy translations and attempted to elucidate the ethical concept that is central to ancient tragedy— reverence, which is the opposite of the tragic vice of hubris. This pair of virtue and vice has a use in political thinking ...
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... Stage 3 Introduction: Why We Need Theater 11 0.1 Being Necessary 13 0.2 The Art of Theater 18 0.3 The Art of Watching 19 0.4 Needing Theater 22 0.5 The Place of Art Theater 25 0.6 Needing the Art 26 PART I: THE ART OF BEING WATCHED 1 ...
... Stage 3 Introduction: Why We Need Theater 11 0.1 Being Necessary 13 0.2 The Art of Theater 18 0.3 The Art of Watching 19 0.4 Needing Theater 22 0.5 The Place of Art Theater 25 0.6 Needing the Art 26 PART I: THE ART OF BEING WATCHED 1 ...
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... stage. The Unwatched Child In the warm dusk of a spring evening, in southeast Missouri, under the young trees behind the farmhouse, the child looks out over the flat alluvial soil and listens to the buzz of older people talking over her ...
... stage. The Unwatched Child In the warm dusk of a spring evening, in southeast Missouri, under the young trees behind the farmhouse, the child looks out over the flat alluvial soil and listens to the buzz of older people talking over her ...
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... stage for a time, if only the people around the new stage know how to give it their attention, and the people on stage know how to receive attention. Then the two sides help each other bring off a successful time of watching and being ...
... stage for a time, if only the people around the new stage know how to give it their attention, and the people on stage know how to receive attention. Then the two sides help each other bring off a successful time of watching and being ...
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