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The Necessity of Theater - The Art of Watching and Being Watched (Hardcover)
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The Necessity of Theater - The Art of Watching and Being Watched (Hardcover)
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What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from
other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art
of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book,
is as necessary--and as powerful--as language itself. Defining
theater broadly, including sporting events and social rituals, he
treats traditional theater as only one possibility in an art
that--at its most powerful--can change lives and (as some peoples
believe) bring a divine presence to earth.
The Necessity of Theater analyzes the unique power of theater by
separating it into the twin arts of watching and being watched,
practiced together in harmony by watchers and the watched. Whereas
performers practice the art of being watched--making their actions
worth watching, and paying attention to action, choice, plot,
character, mimesis, and the sacredness of performance
space--audiences practice the art of watching: paying close
attention. A good audience is emotionally engaged as spectators;
their engagement takes a form of empathy that can lead to a special
kind of human wisdom. As Plato implied, theater cannot teach us
transcendent truths, but it can teach us about ourselves.
Characteristically thoughtful, probing, and original, Paul
Woodruff makes the case for theater as a unique form of expression
connected to our most human instincts. The Necessity of Theater
should appeal to anyone seriously interested or involved in theater
or performance more broadly.
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