British Pantomime Performance PDF
210 Pages·2007·1.463 MB·English
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This original analysis of contemporary British pantomime addresses the question of how pantomime creates a unique interactive relationship with, and potentially transformative experience for, its audiences. British pantomime draws audiences into the story, an engagement with the hero, and an empathetic attachment to the success of the quest. Attention is held by the familiarity of the event, and the comedians draw the audience into a relationship of complicity as they unite to create the unique experience of the live interactive performance. At other times the audience is diverted by the artif. Read more... Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; The Prologue: What's Behind Them?; Money Matters; Chaos and Disruption in Slapstick and Slosh Scenes; Fantasy and Illusion in Design; Familiarity and Nostalgia in an Oral Tradition; Quests and Transformations in Pantomime Stories; Playing with Distance in Pantoland; Is She or Isn't He? Gender and Identity; Audience Participation, Community and Ritual; Topical Reference and the Unique Event; Artifice and Excess in Pantomime Comedy; Mixing Genres in Pantomime Music; A Utopian Community of Dancers
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