Author | : Susan Bennett |
File Size | : 41,8 Mb |
Publisher | : Unknown |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 27 May 2024 |
ISBN | : 1474246494 |
Pages | : 151 pages |
Theory for Theatre Studies by Susan Bennett Book PDF Summary
"Sound provides a lively and engaging overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Addressing sound across history and through progressive developments in relevant technologies, the volume opens up the study of theatrical production and live performance to understand conceptual and pragmatic concerns about the sonic. By way of developed case studies (including Aristophanes's The Frogs, Shakespeare's The Tempest, Cocteau's The Human Voice, and Rimini Protokoll's Situation Rooms), readers can explore new methodologies and approaches for their own work on sound as a performance component. In an engagement with the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of sound studies, this book samples exciting new thinking relevant to theatre and performance studies"--