Theatre and Feeling

by Anne Bogart, Erin Hurley

Overview

How does a tragedy arouse pity and fear? How do music and lighting set a mood or convey an emotional tone for an audience? Why does theatre move us?

Theatre & Feeling explores the idea that, for many people, theatre is a passion. It provides an intellectual framework for the range of emotional experience engendered by the theatre, establishing a base-line for further thinking and practice in this rich and emergent area of inquiry. Moving across western dramatic theory and theatre history, the book demonstrates the centrality of feeling to the theatre. Foreword by Anne Bogart.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230218468
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/03/2010
Series:	Theatre And , #1
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	4.30(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

ERIN HURLEY is Assistant Professor of Drama and Theatre at McGill University, Canada. She won the NeMLA Book Prize for National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion.

ANNE BOGART is the Artistic Director of the SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a Professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program. Works with SITI include Antigone, Under Construction, Freshwater, Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth; Hotel Cassiopeia; Death and the Ploughman; La Dispute; Score; bobrauschenbergamerica; Room; War of the Worlds; Cabin Pressure; The Radio Play; Alice's Adventures; Culture of Desire; Bob; Going, Going, Gone; Small Lives/Big Dreams; The Medium; Noel Coward's Hay Fever and Private Lives; August Strindberg's Miss Julie; and Charles Mee's Orestes. She is the author of three books: A Director Prepares, The Viewpoints Book and And Then, You Act.
ERIN HURLEY is Assistant Professor of Drama and Theatre at McGill University, Canada. She won the NeMLA Book Prize for National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion.

ANNE BOGART is the Artistic Director of the SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a Professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program. Works with SITI include Antigone, Under Construction, Freshwater, Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth; Hotel Cassiopeia; Death and the Ploughman; La Dispute; Score; bobrauschenbergamerica; Room; War of the Worlds; Cabin Pressure; The Radio Play; Alice's Adventures; Culture of Desire; Bob; Going, Going, Gone; Small Lives/Big Dreams; The Medium; Noel Coward's Hay Fever and Private Lives; August Strindberg's Miss Julie; and Charles Mee's Orestes. She is the author of three books: A Director Prepares, The Viewpoints Book and And Then, You Act.

Table of Contents

Foreword; Anne Bogart
Theatre and Feeling
Types of Feeling
Feeling as the Raison d'être of Theatre: Connections to the Body and Brain
The Purpose of Theatre and its Form
Social Value and Social Work
Profiting from Feeling-Work
Feeling's Professional Significance: Acting
Further Reading.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

[a] brilliant series...these mini paperbacks each give an insightful, focused overview of a key topic...start collecting now.' - Whatsonstage.com

'An excellent book…the writing is extraordinarily lucid, without ever simplifying the issues at hand. The effect is really pleasurable'. - Nicholas Ridout, Reader in Theatre and Performance, Queen Mary, University of London

'Reading Theatre& Feeling can help us to make our choices with more consciousness and accountability.' - Anne Bogart, Artistic Director of the SITI Company

'...Palgrave Macmillan's excellent new outward-looking, eclectic Theatre& ... series.These short books, written by leading theatre academics, do much to reintroduce some of the brightest names in theatre academia to the general reader. Plus, the matrix of references to bigger books soon builds quite a comprehensive catch-up reading list for those of us who graduated more than a decade ago and are interested in where contemporary thinking is at...' - Guardian Theatre Blog, September 2009, http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2009/sep/10/theatre-critics-academics-artists

'Through its clarity and precision, as well as through its well-chosen examples, Hurley makes theatre and feeling accessible to a wide readership. The book thus delights while breaking new ground in the field, particularly regarding the crucial issue of how the feeling-technologies of theatre may contribute to a pedagogical, ethical programme. Most importantly, the book highlights the necessity, in the age of global capitalism, for further research into a feeling-based approach to the politics of performance.' - Platform

Editorial Reviews

“An excellent book…the writing is extraordinarily lucid, without ever simplifying the issues at hand. The effect is really pleasurable.” —Nicholas Ridout, Reader in Theatre and Performance, Queen Mary, University of London

"Reading Theatre & Feeling can help us to make our choices with more consciousness and accountability." —Anne Bogart, Artistic Director of the SITI Company

From the Publisher