Space in Performance: Making Meaning in the Theatre (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
By Gay McAuley.
Description
Theater, as distinct from other dramatic media, is essentially a relationship between performer, spectator, and the space in which both come together. Space in Performance examines the way theater buildings function to frame the performance event, the organization of audience and practitioner spaces within the building, the nature of the stage and the modes of representation it facilitates, and the relationship between the real space of the theater and the fictional places that are evoked.The book's theoretical and methodological framework is both semiotic and phenomenological, based i...
ISBN(s)
047208769X, 9780472087693
