Shakespeare and the 'Live' Theatre Broadcast Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

This ground breaking collection of essays is the first to examine the phenomenon of how, in the twenty-first century, Shakespeare has been experienced as a 'live' or 'as-live' theatre broadcast by audiences around the world. Shakespeare and the 'Live' Theatre Broadcast Experience explores the precursors of this phenomenon and its role in Shakespeare's continuing globalization. It considers some of the most important companies that have produced such broadcasts since 2009, including NT Live, Globe on Screen, RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, Stratford Festival HD, Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Live, and Cheek by Jowl, and examines the impact these broadcasts have had on branding, ideology, style and access to Shakespeare for international audiences. Contributors from around the world reflect on how broadcasts impact on actors' performances, changing viewing practices, local and international Shakespearean fan cultures and the use of social media by audience members for whom "liveness" is increasingly tied up in the experience economy. The book tackles vexing questions regarding the 'presentness' and 'liveness' of performance in the 21st century, the reception of Shakespeare in a globally-connected environment, the challenges of sustaining an audience for stage Shakespeare, and the ideological implications of consuming theatre on screen. It will be crucial reading for scholars of the 'live' theatre broadcast, and enormously helpful for scholars of Shakespeare on screen and in performance more broadly.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 159mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9781350125810
• ISBN-10: 1350125814
• Artikelnr.: 56713209

Autorenporträt

Pascale Aebischer is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Performance Studies at the University of Exeter. She specialises in the history of the performance of early modern drama (including Shakespeare), with an emphasis on 1580s-1700 and 1980s-present. She has a particular interest in bodies and performance technologies (from candlelight through social media to 'live' theatre broadcast), as well as in the connection between the reconstruction of early modern playhouses and urban regeneration. These interests are reflected in her teaching, which focuses on early modern - Restoration theatrical cultures and performance practices, Shakespeare, and present-day performance on stages and screens. Susanne Greenhalgh is currently Principal Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Roehampton, UK. Her current research interests centre on reception studies and the relationship between theatre and screen media, especially in relation to Shakespeare's circulation, adaptation and citation in different periods and settings, including the home, theatre and mass media. Laurie Osborne, is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Colby College, USA. She teaches Shakespeare, film theory, literary theory, adaptation studies and composition. Her most recent scholarship focuses on "Shakespeare and Popular Culture."

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations viii List of Contributors ix Acknowledgements x Note on the
text xi List of Abbreviations xii Introduction 1 Pascale Aebischer and
Susanne Greenhalgh Part One: Wide Angle 1 The Remains of the Stage:
Revivifying Shakespearean Theatre on Screen, 1964-2016 19 Susanne
Greenhalgh 2 Shakespeare's New Marketplace: the Places of Event Cinema 41
Susan Bennett 3 The Audience is Present: Aliveness, Social Media, and the
Theatre Broadcast Experience 59 Erin Sullivan, University of Birmingham, UK
4 Understanding New Encounters with Shakespeare: Hybrid Media and Emerging
Audience Behaviours 77 Rachael Nicholas Part Two: In the Theatre 5 A View
from the Stage: Interviews with Performers 95 Beth Sharrock 6 A View from
the Stalls: The Audience's Experience in the Theatre During the RSC Live
from Stratford-upon- Avon Broadcasts 103 Julie Raby Part Three: Close-Ups
7 South Bank Shakespeare Goes Global: Broadcasting from Shakespeare's Globe
and the National Theatre 113 Pascale Aebischer 8 The Stratford Festival of
Canada: Mental Tricks and Archival Documents in the Age of NTLive 133
Margaret Jane Kidnie 9 Talawa and Black Theatre Live: 'Creating the Ira
Aldridges That Are Remembered' - Live Theatre Broadcast and the Historical
Record 147 Jami Rogers 10 Cheek by Jowl: Reframing Complicity in
Web-Streams of Measure for Measure 161 Peter Kirwan Part Four: Reaction
Shots 11 The Curious Incident of Shakespeare Fans in NTLive: Public
Screenings and Fan Culture in Japan 177 Kitamura Sae 12 Shakespeare and the
Theatre Broadcast Experience: A View from Hong Kong 185 Michael Ingham 13
Very Like a Film: Hamlet Live in Bologna 193 Keir Elam 14 Shakespeare at a
Theatre Near You: Student Engagement in Northeast Ohio 199 Ann M. Martinez
15 Shakespeare from the House of Molière: The Comédie-Française/Pathé Live
Roméo et Juliette (2016) 207 Pascale Aebischer Epilogue: Revisiting
Liveness 215 Laurie E. Osborne Appendix: Digital Theatre Broadcasts of
Shakespeare, 2003-17 227 Rachael Nicholas Index 243