Theatre and Feeling

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.

Auteur

ANNE BOGART is a Professor at Columbia University, New York, USA, where she runs the Graduate Directing Program.

Contenu

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.