Popular Performance [Paperback] Ainsworth, Adam; Double, Oliver and Peacock, Louise
Language: English
Published by Methuen Drama, 2018
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Never read, no marks in the text. Our copy is a new paperback showing light a little cover curl at the corners.
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- Title
- Popular Performance [Paperback] Ainsworth, Adam; Double, Oliver and Peacock, Louise
- Author
- Ainsworth, Adam [Editor]; Double, Oliver [Editor]; Peacock, Louise [Editor];
- Publisher
- Methuen Drama
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1350089680
- ISBN 13
- 9781350089686
- Item weight
- 8 ounces
- Dimensions
- 8x5x0
- Seller catalogs
- Theatre/Performance
There is no fourth wall in popular performance. The show is firmly rooted in the here and now, and the performers address the audience directly, while the audience answer back with laughter, applause or heckling. Performer and role are interlaced, so that we are left uncertain about just how the persona we see onstage might relate to the private person who presents it to us.
Popular Performance defines and surveys varieties of performance where the main purpose is to entertain, and where there is no shame in being trivial, frivolous or nonsensical as long as people go home happy at the end of the show. Contributions by new and established scholars focus particularly on how it is made, explaining the techniques of performance and production that make it so appealing to audiences. With sections examining how popular performance works in a range of historical and contemporary examples, readers will gain insights into:
* performance forms associated with the variety tradition: music hall, vaudeville, cabaret, variety
* performance forms associated with circus: wild west shows, clowning
* issues relating to the identity of the performer in relation to magic, burlesque, pantomime in contemporary performance
* issues relating to venue and audience in relation to contemporary street theatre, stand-up, and live sketch comedy.
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About the Author
OLIVER DOUBLE is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Kent, UK.
Louise Peacock is Associate Professor of Drama in the School of Arts, Design and Humanities at De Montfort University, UK. She is the author of Serious Play: Modern Clown Performance (2009) and Slapstick and Comic Performance: Comedy and Pain (2014). She is a member of the editorial board of Comedy Studies.
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