Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 0521852080
0521617561
9780521617567
9780521852081
9780511246661
0511246668
9780511617669
0511617666
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? In trying to answer these questions - usually ignored by theatre scholarship but of enduring interest to theatre professionals and audiences alike - Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. The book focuses on the theatrical encounter - those events in which actor and audience come face to face in a strangely compromised and alienated intimacy - arguing that the modern theatre has become a place where we entertain ourselves by experimenting with our feelings about work, social relations and about feelings themselves."--Jacket
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| Other form: | Print version: Ridout, Nick. Stage fright, animals, and other theatrical problems. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 0521852080 9780521852
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