Audience Revolution : Dispatches from the Field.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Evolution and Resistance -- Evolution &gt -- Revolution? -- Community/Resistance: Reflections on Discourse and Community -- The Lies We Tell About Audience Engagement -- It Takes a Village to Raise a Theatre -- Activating Audience: Theatre of Radical Inclusion -- Back to the Future -- Inside Out -- Teaching Students to Create for Contemporary Audiences -- Ancient Technologies for Modern Times -- Building Bridges -- let's get punk rock about this -- Only for "Black" Shows: Black Audiences on Standby -- For Love of the Ceremony: Thoughts on Audiences and New-Play Festivals -- Ask Your Artists -- Guest in House as God in House: Hospitality as Principle and Practice for Albuquerque's Tricklock Company -- Chapter Two: Seeing -- I'll Be Your One-Way Mirror: Crossing the Fourth Wall -- Making Eye Contact with Millennials: The Ephemeral and the Visceral -- Setting the Table -- Challenging "Excellence" in American Theatre -- The Dreams We Make -- When Your Play is Set in a Yarn-Bombed Hardware Store -- Relaxed Performances, "Crip Time," and Access for All -- Where Art is Equal -- Chapter Three: Place and Play -- Narrative of Place -- A Rumination on Audience Development and a Short Series of Unwieldy Questions -- Playing in Cities -- Imagining Audiences -- The Spectator: Coauthor of My Shows -- Crafting a Participatory Performance Space -- Pillsbury House + Theatre -- Stories 'Round the Campfire -- MILTON: A Performance and Community-Engagement Experiment -- New Opportunities for Surprise -- Theatre and the Net: Projects and Possibilities -- Space for Theatre -- Chapter Four: Being -- The Act of Recognition -- We Are Not Alone -- Art is People -- The Volt (of Resistance) -- What Remains? -- Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (Even If) You Can't Always Get What You Want -- The Reminder.

From experts in the theatre field, an indispensable book of essays on how to engage your audience.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.