Format:
Online-Ressource (XVII, 201 p. 48 illus, online resource)
ISBN:
9789400776098
Series Statement:
Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education 12
Content:
This volume offers rare insights into the connection between young audiences and the performing arts. Based on studies of adolescent and post-adolescent audiences, ages 14 to 25, the book examines to what extent they are part of our society’s cultural conversation. It studies how these young people read and understand theatrical performance. It looks at what the educational components in their theatre literacy are, and what they make of the whole social event of theatre. It studies their views on the relationship between what they themselves decide and what others decide for them. The book uses qualitative and quantitative data collected in a six-year study carried out in the three largest Australian States, thirteen major performing arts companies, including the Sydney Opera House, three state theatre companies and three funding organisations. The book’s perspectives are derived from world-wide literature and company practices and its significance and ramifications are international. The book is written to be engaging and accessible to theatre professionals and lay readers interested in theatre, as well as scholars and researchers. “This extraordinary book thoroughly explains why young people (ages 14-25+) do and do not attend theatre into adulthood by delineating how three inter-linked factors (literacy, confidence, and etiquette) influence their decisions. Given that theatre happens inside spectators’ minds, the authors balance the theatre equation by focusing upon young spectators and thereby dispel numerous beliefs held by theatre artists and educators. Each clearly written chapter engages readers with astute insights and compelling examples of pertinent responses from young people, teachers, and theatre professionals. To stem the tide of decreasing theatre attendance, this highly useful book offers pragmatic strategies for artistic, educational, and marketing directors, as well as national theatre organizations and arts councils around the world. I have no doubt that its brilliantly conceived research, conducted across multiple contexts in Australia, will make a significant and original contribution to the profession of theatre on an international scale.” Jeanne Klein, University of Kansas, USA “Young Audiences, Theatre and the Cultural Conversation is a compelling and comprehensive study on attitudes and habits of youth theatre audiences by leading international scholars in the field. This benchmark study offers unique insights by and fo ...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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ForewordAcknowledgments -- Part I TheatreSpace Project Partners and Case Studies -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Project, its Partners and its Purposes -- Chapter 3: Access and the Practicalities of Attendance -- Chapter 4: The Context of the Performance Event -- Chapter 5: The Education Landscape -- Chapter 6: Young Audiences from the Educators' Perspective -- Chapter 7: The Industry Partners’ Perceptions -- Chapter 8: Engagement and Liveness -- Chapter 9: Building Theatre Confidence -- Chapter 10: Theatre Literacy -- Chapter 11: ‘It’s Real’ - Genre and Performance Style -- Chapter 12: Conclusion - a Continuum for Planning.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789400776081
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Young audiences, theatre and the cultural conversation Dordrecht : Springer, 2014 ISBN 9789400776081
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-7609-8
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