Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion

Peta Tait, Susan Bennett, Kim Solga, Susan Bennett, Kim Solga

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781350030848
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350030862
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Theatre Direction & Production

Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion explores how emotion is communicated in drama, theatre, and contemporary performance and therefore in society. From Aristotle and Shakespeare to Stanislavski, Brecht and Caryl Churchill, theatre reveals and, informs but also warns about the emotions. The term 'emotion' encompasses the emotions, emotional feelings, affect and mood, and the book explores how these concepts are embodied and experienced within theatrical practice and explained in theory. Since emotion is artistically staged, its composition and impact can be described and analysed in relation to interdisciplinary approaches. Readers are encouraged to consider how emotion is dramatically, aurally, and visually developed to create innovative performance.

Case studies include: Medea, Twelfth Night, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Ibsen's A Doll's House, and performances by Mabou Mines, Robert Lepage, Rimini Protokoll, Anna Deavere Smith, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Marina Abramovic, and The Wooster Group. By way of these detailed case studies, readers will appreciate new methodologies and approaches for their own exploration of 'emotion' as a performance component.

Online resources to accompany this book are available at https://www.bloomsbury.com/theory-for-theatre-studies-emotion-9781350030848/.

INDEX

Abramovic, Marina here, here, here

The Aborigine Is Present here

actor, acting and emotion here, here, here, here, here–here, see also Brecht, emotions, emotional feeling, method acting, neuroscience, Stanislavski

authentic here–here

Chinese influences here, here, here–here

emotional memory here–here, here, here

gesture here–here

historical here, here, here–here

histrionic here

imagination here

Indian traditions here–here, here–here

lifelike, natural, here, here, here, here, here

manuals here–here

psychophysical acting here–here

rhetoric and here

self restraint here, here, here–here, here

actor training and emotions here, here–here, here, see also method acting, Stanislavski

Adler, Stella here–here

Affect (felt sensation) here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here–here

affective here–here

atmospheres here

energetic flows here, here

impersonal here, here

involuntary here

nonhuman here, here, here, here, here, here

noun here–here

porous body here, here

puzzlement (thought) here, here

science here, here

shock here, here, here, here, here, here, here

spell here

technologies and here–here, here–here

theory of here–here, here–here, here–her...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents 
• Series preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Approach and concepts
• Section One: Legacies and case studies
• Section Two: Affect and case studies
• Section Three: Mood and case studies
• References
• Index
• Imprint