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Abstract
How do audiences experience live performances? What is gained when a national theatre is born? These questions and more are the subject of Locating the Audience, the first in-depth study of how people form relationships with a new theatre company. Investigating the inaugural season of National Theatre Wales, Kirsty Sedgman explores how different people felt about the way their communities were 'engaged' and their places 'performed' by the theatre’s productions. Mapping the complex interplay between audience experience and identity, the book presents a significant contribution to our contemporary project of defining cultural value. Rather than understanding value as an end point, 'impact', Sedgman makes the provocative claim that cultural value can better be understood as a process.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Half Title | i | ||
| Title | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Foreword by John E. McGrath | vii | ||
| Preface | xi | ||
| Acknowledgements | xvii | ||
| Chapter 1: Why (and How to) Study Theatre Audiences? | 1 | ||
| Chapter 2: Dancing into a Minefield: The Launch of National Theatre Wales | 27 | ||
| Chapter 3: ‘Local’ Theatre for ‘Local’ People: Framing Audience Response | 47 | ||
| Chapter 4: For Mountain, Sand & Sea | 73 | ||
| Chapter 5: The Persians | 121 | ||
| Chapter 6: ‘Do You Think the Audience Will Get It?’ | 159 | ||
| Bibliography | 167 | ||
| Appendix 1: National Theatre Wales’ First-Year Productions | 181 | ||
| Appendix 2: Methodological Appendix | 189 | ||
| Appendix 3: Post-Show Questionnaire | 197 | ||
| Index | 203 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |