This is a book for audiences. It is a book about audiences. It is a book for anyone who watches, is watched, and all the spaces in between.
Introducing the idea of performance as a shared transformative experience, this engaging book will help you make sense of the performer/audience interaction in a landscape where boundaries are collapsing. Drawing on themes of performance, exchange and the body, it offers an accessible entry into the philosophy of spectatorship.
Covers three of the most popular and important fields within contemporary theatre and performance studies: audience, the body and place/space
Suitable for a wide range of courses on contemporary performance practice and theory
Includes case studies and tasks for students
Cuttingedge author team renowned for their own performance work as well as their scholarship
Joanne 'Bob' Whalley
alchemy performance subject theatre transformation