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| 0811-1545-01 | The Role of the Spectator | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Theatre's theory and practice is essentially connected to the spectator towards whom it is oriented and gives it its very justification: The theatre audience, which is not an obvious entity. "The gaze upon the gaze" will be examined through several points of view. We shall problematize the status of the gaze; we shall deal with the central role of the spectator in defining the medium and with the spatial location of theatre audiences as these are understood both historically and culturally; we shall discuss familiar and contemporary terms of reception theories, including the notion of aesthetic illusion; we shall mainly discuss options to apply the idea of the "emancipated spectator" through participatory models and radical cases.