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Young Audiences, Theatre and the Cultural Conversation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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Young Audiences, Theatre and the Cultural Conversation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
Series: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, 12
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This volume offers rare insights into the connection between young
audiences and the performing arts. Based on studies of adolescent
and post-adolescent audiences, ages 14 to 25, the book examines to
what extent they are part of our society's cultural conversation.
It studies how these young people read and understand theatrical
performance. It looks at what the educational components in their
theatre literacy are, and what they make of the whole social event
of theatre. It studies their views on the relationship between what
they themselves decide and what others decide for them. The book
uses qualitative and quantitative data collected in a six-year
study carried out in the three largest Australian States, thirteen
major performing arts companies, including the Sydney Opera House,
three state theatre companies and three funding organisations. The
book's perspectives are derived from world-wide literature and
company practices and its significance and ramifications are
international. The book is written to be engaging and accessible to
theatre professionals and lay readers interested in theatre, as
well as scholars and researchers. "This extraordinary book
thoroughly explains why young people (ages 14-25+) do and do not
attend theatre into adulthood by delineating how three inter-linked
factors (literacy, confidence, and etiquette) influence their
decisions. Given that theatre happens inside spectators' minds, the
authors balance the theatre equation by focusing upon young
spectators and thereby dispel numerous beliefs held by theatre
artists and educators. Each clearly written chapter engages readers
with astute insights and compelling examples of pertinent responses
from young people, teachers, and theatre professionals. To stem the
tide of decreasing theatre attendance, this highly useful book
offers pragmatic strategies for artistic, educational, and
marketing directors, as well as national theatre organizations and
arts councils around the world. I have no doubt that its
brilliantly conceived research, conducted across multiple contexts
in Australia, will make a significant and original contribution to
the profession of theatre on an international scale." Jeanne Klein,
University of Kansas, USA "Young Audiences, Theatre and the
Cultural Conversation is a compelling and comprehensive study on
attitudes and habits of youth theatre audiences by leading
international scholars in the field. This benchmark study offers
unique insights by and for theatre makers and administrators,
theatre educators and researchers, schools, parents, teachers,
students, audience members of all ages. A key strength within the
book centers on the emphasis of the participant voices,
particularly the voices of the youth. Youth voices, along with
those of teachers and theatre artists, position the extensive field
research front and center." George Belliveau, The University of
British Columbia, Canada
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