Caroline Heim

Actors and Audiences (eBook, ePUB)

Conversations in the Electric Air

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Actors and Audiences explores the exchanges between those on and off the stage that fill the atmosphere with energy and vitality. Caroline Heim utilises the concept of "electric air" to describe this phenomenon and discuss the charge of emotional electricity that heightens the audience's senses in the theatre.

In order to understand this electric air, Heim draws from in-depth interviews with 79 professional audience members and 22 international stage and screen actors in the United Kingdom, United States, France and Germany. Tapping into the growing interest in empirical studies of the audience, this book documents experiences from three productions - The Encounter, Heisenberg and Hunger. Peer Gynt - to describe the nature of these conversations. The interviews disclose essential elements: transference, identification, projection, double consciousness, presence, stage fright and the suspension of disbelief. Ultimately Heim reveals that the heart of theatre is the relationship between those on- and off-stage, the way in which emotions and words create psychological conversations that pass through the fourth wall into an "in-between space," and the resulting electric air.

A fascinating introduction to a unique subject, this book provides a close examination of actor and audience perspectives, which is essential reading for students and academics of Theatre, Performance and Audience Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315456072
• Artikelnr.: 58786443

Autorenporträt

Caroline Heim is a senior lecturer in Theatre at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: ELECTRIC AIR
CHAPTER ONE The Electric Air of Theatre
CHAPTER TWO The View from the Stage
CHAPTER THREE The View from the Audience
PART II: CONVERSATIONS
CHAPTER FOUR Heisenberg's Psychological Conversations
CHAPTER FIVE Encounters with The Encounter
CHAPTER SIX Hunger. Peer Gynt: a Thirst for Conversations
Conclusion
Appendix: Actor Biographies
Index