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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820171603321

Autore

Tulloch John

Titolo

Shakespeare and Chekhov in production and reception : theatrical events and their audiences / / John Tulloch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2005

ISBN

1-58729-600-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

Studies in theatre history & culture

Classificazione

24.02

Disciplina

792.9/5

Soggetti

Theater audiences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-304) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Defining theatrical event and audience research -- Spectatorship social audiences, and risk: Shakespeare and the Q theatre -- Imagining audiences: the Eyre-Griffiths productions of The cherry orchard -- The "reading Chekhov" project: social audiences and reading formations -- The theatrical event: inner and outer audience frames -- Contextual theatricality: the theatrical event as occasion and place -- Cultural contexts: theatrical event, liminality and risk in The free state and The cherry orchard -- Playing culture: pleasurable play in The free state and The cherry orchard -- Theatrical playing: Much Ado, mediatization and "liveness".

Sommario/riassunto

With a focus on the canonical institutions of Shakespeare and Chekhov, John Tulloch brings together for the first time new concepts of ""the theatrical event"" with live audience analysis. Using mainstream theatre productions from across the globe that were highly successful according to both critics and audiences, this book of case studies--ethnographies of production and reception--offers a combined cultural and media studies approach to analyzing theatre history, production, and audience. Tulloch positions these concepts and methodologies within a broader current theatrical debate between p