Playing Offstage
Playing Offstage Fourteen scholars who work on campus or in the theater address this issue of what it means to play offstage. They employed a variety of critical approaches to the question of what…
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Playing Offstage
Fourteen scholars who work on campus or in the theater address this issue of what it means to play offstage. They employed a variety of critical approaches to the question of what happens when the play moves into the audience or beyond the physical playhouse itself? With their individual definition of what "offstage" could mean, the results were, predictably, varied.
Questions of "how" and "why" actors play offstage admit the larger "role" their production has for the world outside the theater, and hence this collection's sub-title: "The Theater As a Presence or Factor in the Real World." Among the various topics, the essays include: breaking the "fourth wall" and thereby making the audience part of the performance; the theater of political protest (one contributor staged Waiting for Godot in Zuccotti Park as part of the Occupy What are the social, cultural, and political ramifications?
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