Theatre & Feeling - (Theatre and) by Anne Bogart & Erin Hurley (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

How does a tragedy arouse pity and fear? How do music and lighting set a mood or convey an emotional tone for an audience? Why does theatre move us?

Theatre & Feeling explores the idea that, for many people, theatre is a passion. It provides an intellectual framework for the range of emotional experience engendered by the theatre, establishing a base-line for further thinking and practice in this rich and emergent area of inquiry. Moving across western dramatic theory and theatre history, the book demonstrates the centrality of feeling to the theatre. Foreword by Anne Bogart.

From the Back Cover

How does a tragedy arouse pity and fear? How do music and lighting set a mood or convey an emotional tone for an audience? Why does theatre move us?

Theatre& Feeling explores the idea that, for many people, theatre is a passion. It provides an intellectual framework for the range of emotional experience engendered by the theatre, establishing a base-line for further thinking and practice in this rich and emergent area of inquiry. Moving across western dramatic theory and theatre history, the book demonstrates the centrality of feeling to the theatre.

Foreword by Anne Bogart

Review Quotes

An excellent book the writing is extraordinarily lucid, without ever simplifying the issues at hand. The effect is really pleasurable. Nicholas Ridout, Reader in Theatre and Performance, Queen Mary, University of London

"Reading Theatre & Feeling can help us to make our choices with more consciousness and accountability." Anne Bogart, Artistic Director of the SITI Company"

An excellent book the writing is extraordinarily lucid, without ever simplifying the issues at hand. The effect is really pleasurable. Nicholas Ridout, Reader in Theatre and Performance, Queen Mary, University of London"Reading "Theatre & Feeling" can help us to make our choices with more consciousness and accountability." Anne Bogart, Artistic Director of the SITI Company"

"An excellent book...the writing is extraordinarily lucid, without ever simplifying the issues at hand. The effect is really pleasurable." --Nicholas Ridout, Reader in Theatre and Performance, Queen Mary, University of London"Reading "Theatre & Feeling" can help us to make our choices with more consciousness and accountability." --Anne Bogart, Artistic Director of the SITI Company

“An excellent book…the writing is extraordinarily lucid, without ever simplifying the issues at hand. The effect is really pleasurable.” —Nicholas Ridout, Reader in Theatre and Performance, Queen Mary, University of London"Reading "Theatre & Feeling" can help us to make our choices with more consciousness and accountability." —Anne Bogart, Artistic Director of the SITI Company

About the Author

ERIN HURLEY is Assistant Professor of Drama and Theatre at McGill University, Canada. She won the NeMLA Book Prize for National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion.

ANNE BOGART is the Artistic Director of the SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a Professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program. Works with SITI include Antigone, Under Construction, Freshwater, Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth; Hotel Cassiopeia; Death and the Ploughman; La Dispute; Score; bobrauschenbergamerica; Room; War of the Worlds; Cabin Pressure; The Radio Play; Alice's Adventures; Culture of Desire; Bob; Going, Going, Gone; Small Lives/Big Dreams; The Medium; Noel Coward's Hay Fever and Private Lives; August Strindberg's Miss Julie; and Charles Mee's Orestes. She is the author of three books: A Director Prepares, The Viewpoints Book and And Then, You Act.
ERIN HURLEY is Assistant Professor of Drama and Theatre at McGill University, Canada. She won the NeMLA Book Prize for National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion.

ANNE BOGART is the Artistic Director of the SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a Professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program. Works with SITI include Antigone, Under Construction, Freshwater, Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth; Hotel Cassiopeia; Death and the Ploughman; La Dispute; Score; bobrauschenbergamerica; Room; War of the Worlds; Cabin Pressure; The Radio Play; Alice's Adventures; Culture of Desire; Bob; Going, Going, Gone; Small Lives/Big Dreams; The Medium; Noel Coward's Hay Fever and Private Lives; August Strindberg's Miss Julie; and Charles Mee's Orestes. She is the author of three books: A Director Prepares, The Viewpoints Book and And Then, You Act.