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- Demonstrates the contemporary performance of power differentials within the audience themselves
- Conducts a nuanced analysis of the language used in online theatre etiquette blogs and articles
- Critiques the concept of 'reasonableness'
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The Reasonable Audience explores the recent trend of ‘theatre etiquette’: an audience-led crusade to bring ‘manners and respect’ back to the auditorium. This comes at a time when, around the world, arts institutions are working to balance the traditional pleasures of receptive quietness with the need to foster more inclusive experiences. Through investigating the rhetorics of morality underpinning both sides of the argument, this book examines how models of 'good' and 'bad' spectatorship are constructed and legitimised. Is theatre etiquette actually snobbish? Are audiences really more selfish? Who gets to decide what counts as ‘reasonable’ within public space?Using theatre etiquette to explore wider issues of social participation, cultural exclusion, and the politics of identity, Kirsty Sedgman asks what it means to police the behaviour of others.
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Book Title: The Reasonable Audience
Book Subtitle: Theatre Etiquette, Behaviour Policing, and the Live Performance Experience
Authors: Kirsty Sedgman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99166-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99165-8Published: 14 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99166-5Published: 02 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 174
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Contemporary Theatre, Performing Arts, Theatre Industry