Cover of Feeling theatre

Book 2012

Feeling theatre

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Published
2012
  • Theater
  • Psychology
  • Acting
  • Actors
  • Psychological aspects
  • Theater audiences
  • Emotions (Philosophy)

"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"--