{"product_id":"actors-and-audiences","title":"Actors and Audiences","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eActors and Audiences\u003c\/em\u003e explores the exchanges between those on and off the stage that fill the atmosphere with energy and vitality. Caroline Heim utilises the concept of \"electric air\" to describe this phenomenon and discuss the charge of emotional electricity that heightens the audience’s senses in the theatre. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn order to understand this electric air, Heim draws from in-depth interviews with 79 professional audience members and 22 international stage and screen actors in the United Kingdom, United States, France and Germany. Tapping into the growing interest in empirical studies of the audience, this book documents experiences from three productions – \u003cem\u003eThe Encounter\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHeisenberg \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eHunger.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ePeer Gynt \u003c\/em\u003e– to describe the nature of these conversations. The interviews disclose essential elements: transference, identification, projection, double consciousness, presence, stage fright and the suspension of disbelief. Ultimately Heim reveals that the heart of theatre is the relationship between those on- and off-stage, the way in which emotions and words create psychological conversations that pass through the fourth wall into an \"in-between space,\" and the resulting electric air. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fascinating introduction to a unique subject, this book provides a close examination of actor and audience perspectives, which is essential reading for students and academics of Theatre, Performance and Audience Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54238655185240,"sku":"9781138210073","price":50.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138210073.jpg?v=1779173152","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/actors-and-audiences","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}