Title Actors and audiences : conversations in the electric air / Caroline Heim

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Contents The electric air of theatre -- The view from the stage -- The view from the audience -- Heisenberg's psychological conversations -- Encounters with The encounter -- Hunger. Peer Gynt : a thirst for conversations Summary "Actors and Audiences explores the exchanges between those on and off the stage that fill the atmosphere with energy and vitality; Caroline Heim utilises the concept of "electric air" to describe this phenomenon and discuss the charge of emotional electricity that heightens the audience's senses in the theatre. In order to understand this electric air, Heim draws from in-depth interviews with 79 professional audience members and 22 international stage and screen actors in the UK, US, France and Germany. Tapping into the growing interest in empirical studies of the audience, this book documents experiences from three productions, The Encounter, Heisenberg and Hunger. Peer Gynt., to describe the nature of these conversations. The interviews disclose essential elements: transference, identification, projection, double-consciousness, presence, stage fright, and the suspension of disbelief. Ultimately Heim reveals that the heart of theatre is the relationship between those on and off stage, the way in which emotions and words create psychological conversations that pass through the fourth wall into an "in-between space", and the resulting electric air. A fascinating introduction to a unique subject, this text provides a close examination of actor and audience perspectives that is essential reading for students and academics of Theatre, Performance and Audience Studies"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Theater audiences -- Psychology. Actors -- Psychology. Theater audiences -- Interviews Actors -- Interviews Theater. theater (discipline) PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General. Actors Actors -- Psychology Theater Theater audiences Theater audiences -- Psychology Genre/Form Electronic books Interviews Form Electronic book LC no. 2019053707 ISBN 9781315456096 1315456095 9781315456072 1315456079 9781315456065 1315456060 9781315456089 1315456087

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