The Reasonable Audience Theatre Etiquette, Behaviour Policing, and the Live Performance Experience /

• Main Author: Sedgman, Kirsty (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Theater.; Performing arts.; Contemporary Theatre.; Performing Arts.; Theatre Industry.

Audiences are not what they used to be. Munching crisps or snapping selfies, chatting loudly or charging phones onstage - bad behaviour in theatre is apparently on the rise. And lately some spectators have begun to fight back... The Reasonable Audience explores the recent trend of 'theatre etiq...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Theatre Contract
• 3. Audience Attention & Aesthetic Experience
• 4. A Defence of Theatre Etiquette
• 5. On the Reasonable Audience
• 6. Marked/Unmarked Bodies.