{"product_id":"stage-fright-animals-and-other-theatrical-problems-paperback-9780521617567","title":"Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems (Paperback) 9780521617567","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis study looks into the things which go wrong on the theatre stage.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNicholas Ridout (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521617567, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 17 August 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e206 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.2 cm, 0.292 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'In the intellectual energy of the connections it makes, and in the purposeful play of its attentive unfolding of the insistently overlooked and repressed within theatre, this volume makes a significant contribution to a growing body of recent and related British scholarship.' Contemporary Theatre Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhy 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. This 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I: 1. From the promise of performance to the return of theatre\u003cbr\u003e 2. Kleist's Uber das Marionettentheater\u003cbr\u003e 3. From an ethics of performance to an affective politics of theatre\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Stage Fright: The Predicament of the Actor: 1. In an 'awful hole'\u003cbr\u003e 2. A very 'modern' hole\u003cbr\u003e 3. Into the hole and out: diagnosis and cure\u003cbr\u003e 4. Abject hole: first 'blowback'\u003cbr\u003e 5. Face your fear\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Embarrassment: The Predicament of the Audience: 1. Please don't look at me\u003cbr\u003e 2. What is embarrassment?\u003cbr\u003e 3. Towards a politics of shame\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Animal on Stage: 1. Mouse in the house\u003cbr\u003e 2. Signs of labour\u003cbr\u003e 3. Animal politics\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Mutual Predicaments: Corpsing and Fiasco: 1. Laughter\u003cbr\u003e 2. Corpsing\u003cbr\u003e 3. Fiasco\u003cbr\u003e 4. Forced entertainment\u003cbr\u003e 5. Lyotard on theatre: 'last blowback'\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003010273560,"sku":"9780521617567","price":35.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521617567i_b17dae1c-97f8-470c-b993-db5e1e1c5c8c.jpg?v=1691370604","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/stage-fright-animals-and-other-theatrical-problems-paperback-9780521617567","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}