The reasonable audience : theatre etiquette, behaviour policing, and the live performance experience / Kirsty Sedgman.
2018
PN2193.A8 S43 2018
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Title
The reasonable audience : theatre etiquette, behaviour policing, and the live performance experience / Kirsty Sedgman.
Author
Sedgman, Kirsty, author.
ISBN
9783319991665 (electronic book)
3319991663 (electronic book)
3319991655
9783319991658
3319991663 (electronic book)
3319991655
9783319991658
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 174 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
PN2193.A8 S43 2018
Summary
The Reasonable Audience explores the recent trend of 'theatre etiquette': an audience-led crusade to bring 'manners and respect' back to the auditorium. This comes at a time when, around the world, arts institutions are working to balance the traditional pleasures of receptive quietness with the need to foster more inclusive experiences. Through investigating the rhetorics of morality underpinning both sides of the argument, this book examines how models of 'good' and 'bad' spectatorship are constructed and legitimised. Is theatre etiquette actually snobbish? Are audiences really more selfish? Who gets to decide what counts as 'reasonable' within public space? Using theatre etiquette to explore wider issues of social participation, cultural exclusion, and the politics of identity, Kirsty Sedgman asks what it means to police the behaviour of others.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-170) and index.
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Palgrave pivot.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
The theatre contract
Audience attention and aesthetic experience
A defence of theatre etiquette
On the reasonable audience
Marked/unmarked bodies.
The theatre contract
Audience attention and aesthetic experience
A defence of theatre etiquette
On the reasonable audience
Marked/unmarked bodies.