Live performance continues to be created every time it is performed. This book explores the dynamic relationship between creative process, presentation and spectator response to provide students and scholars in Drama with new insights on performance from poetry to pantomime.<\/p>\n
These essays make parallels between areas of performance that are rarely, if ever, compared. They present the basis for an overall theory of how ‘conception’, ‘development’, ‘presentation’ and ‘reception’ are fused together to make up the overall ‘performance’. This study investigates the relationship between the process of creating performance and spectator response, and how this exchange is embedded into the product itself.<\/p>\n
The authors draw on theoretical approaches from a range of sources, and examine the work of contemporary dramatists, choreographers, poets and performers including:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Sarah Kane
\n\u2022 Iain Baxter
\n\u2022 Yolande Snaith
\n\u2022 Slobodan Snajder
\n\u2022 Phylis Nagy
\n\u2022 Steve Benson
\n\u2022 David Fielding
\n\u2022 David Antin
\n\u2022 Bette Midler
\n\u2022 Karen Malpede
\n\u2022 Stephen Daldry
\n\u2022 Mai Lanfang<\/p>\n
Its construction of a new, wide-ranging approach to performance research makes this book a valuable resource for the student as well as the broader academic community. It has application both as a textbook and for supplementary research on drama courses nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n