Theatre Audiences - 9780415157223

Taylor & Francis

Susan Bennett's highly successful Theatre Audiences is a unique full-length study of the audience as cultural phenomenon, which looks at both theories of spectatorship and the practice of different theatres and their audiences.\n Published here in a brand new updated edition, Theatre Audiences now includes:\n \u2022 a new preface by the author\n \u2022 a stunning extra chapter on intercultural theatre\n \u2022 a revised up-to-date bibliography.\nTheatre Audiences is a must-buy for teachers and students interested in spectatorship and theatre audiences, and will be valuable reading for practitioners and others involved in the theatre.\n > Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Theories of Reading and Viewing; Chapter 3 The Audience and Theatre; Chapter 4 Spectatorship Across Culture; Chapter 5 Conclusion; > \nSusan Bennett is Professor of English at the University of Calgary. She is author of Performing Nostalgia (Routledge 1995).