Open Space - Theatre as Opportunity for Living (Paperback)

This book looks at the way theatre works in order to make 'space for living'. It provides the means to help one feel more deeply, think more clearly, relate more personally, by giving audiences and actors the opportunity to rehearse their roles within a setting which is imagined, but to make use of feelings and thoughts which are real. This book extends the territory explored by Peter Brook in The Empty Space. It adds a new psychological dimension: recognising that not only do we ourselves make space for theatre, but it is also true that theatre makes space for us -- a 'space for living'. Roger Grainger looks in turn at the different kinds of space theatre creates, using written sources and the spoken testimony of actors and members of the audience. The author's own discoveries as a professional actor give passion and immediacy to the acting/audience participation opportunities these insights provide. Based on genuine experience of, and love for, the theatre, this book does not present plays solely as literature but as particular kinds of theatrical experience. In so doing the author breaks new ground in theatre studies and provides actors and audience with tools that promote 'hands-on' knowledge and experience of the human value of drama and theatre.

General

Imprint:	Sussex Academic Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2014
First published:	September 2014
Authors:	Roger Grainger
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	140
ISBN-13:	978-1-84519-668-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy
LSN:	1-84519-668-6
Barcode:	9781845196684

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