Acquire Reading The Material Theatre Articulated By Ric Knowles Shown In Manuscript

combo of theory in the first section and case studies in the second section case studies include Stratford Festival, Knowles' books is one of the most important texts on understanding theatre in its sociocultural context, Although the wide variety of theatre companies, performance venues, performance contexts, and so on prevent Knowles from giving an ideally thorough examination, he provides a lot of clues for what to look at when examining theatrical materialismincluding questions about perfromance production, locations, architecture, relations to space and community, promotion, and organization of spaces within the theatre building.
The book provides illustrative examplesincluding a set of case studies which make up the latter halfthat flesh out and clarify many of the issues Knowles raises as part of the meaningmaking interplay of semiotics and cultural materialism that goes into theatrical production and reception.
Ric Knowles develops and demonstrates a method

of theatrical performance analysis involving the entire theater experience, from production to reception, Five case studies provide a firststep introduction to key terms and areas of performance theory, They include the cultural work performed by a major Shakespearean repertory theater, a small nationalist theater devoted to new play development, a major New Yorkbased avantgarde touring theater company, and a British socialist company dedicated to the work of Shakespeare, as well as a range of international festivals.
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