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Feeling Theatre

by Martin Welton

An inquiry into feeling as a shared event in contemporary performance

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An inquiry into feeling as a shared event in contemporary performance

Martin Welton examines why theatre can be experienced as physically or emotionally affecting, taking seriously the language of being “touched” or “moved” by a performance. Centered on contemporary works, the book considers situations in which performers and audiences inhabit a shared field of feeling. Its inquiry shifts attention beyond the staged play alone to the encounter created around it: how performance, spectatorship, and sensation may overlap. With its emphasis on questions of affect and audience-performer relations, Feeling Theatre frames theatre not simply as something watched, but as an experience shaped between those present.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Students and scholars of theatre and performance studies
  • Readers interested in spectatorship, affect, and audience-performer relationships
  • Theatre practitioners exploring contemporary performance contexts

Themes

Affect in performanceSpectatorshipAudience-performer exchangeContemporary theatreShared experience

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Book overview

Why is it that in going to see plays we are also touched or moved by them, and is there more than metaphor involved in such claims? Considering these and other questions, this book examines a range of contemporary performance works in which performers and their audiences occupy a shared realm of feelings, in which the play is not always the thing.
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