Encountering Theatre - Week 2
Reviewing on theatre and audience
- Bodies watching other Bodies is what makes theatre
- Critics are all comprised of White middle aged men thus narrowing the review
- Frame of reference and previous knowledge
- Sometime you can give and account of what you saw with no direct involvement
- Witness/partner in crime/voyeur (voir ‘see’.)
- Theatre : Theatron : To see
- Obscene - outside of the scene
- There is not one meaning theatre will present to u
- Audiences Purpose
- Each individual response creates a collective response
- The individual determines the piece as each interpretation is subjecctive
Reviewing Underground Railroad Game
- school children are the best audience as there is less of a hold back of emotion and feeling
- The fact that modern times are reverting back to initial racism. from trying to escape it and now reverting back
- problems still exist but have evolved
- Citations
- Fetishising slavery
- the necessity for catharsis
- Using the shock factor in order to educate the audience
- A common yet misunderstood time period
- Use of time parallels to develop understanding of history
Important Things
- Nickolas Ridout
- The Death of the Alter Essay (Rolan Barnes)
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