by Rajni Shah
- Author(s)
- Rajni Shah
- Publication
- London : Rowman & Littlefield, 2021
- Scope
- 280 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781538144299
Through an exploration of both practice and theory, this book investigates the relationship between listening and the theatrical encounter in the context of Western theatre and performance. Rather than looking to the stage for a politics or ethics of performance, Rajni Shah asks what work needs to happen in order for the stage itself to appear, exploring some of the factors that might allow or prevent a group of individuals to gather together as an ‘audience’. Shah proposes that the theatrical encounter is a structure that prioritizes the attentive over the declarative; each of the five chapters is an exploration of this proposition. In the fourth chapter, Shah examines the role of the invitation in setting up the parameters for being-in-audience, in relation to Sara Ahmed’s writing about arrival and encounter. And in the final chapter the second practice element, Experiments in Listening, operates to expand our thinking about where and how the work of being-in-audience takes place.
- Person as subject
- Rajni Shah
- Keywords
- theatre , care , listening
- Location
- Cabinet 30 - 4: Tentacular Thinking ; Mind Map'
- Remarks
- Includes notes, bibliography, index
