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BL
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1041538
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b795908
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Ridout, Nick.
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| Title & Author
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Stage fright, animals, and other theatrical problems /\ Nicholas Ridout.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2006.
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| Series Statement
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Theatre and performance theory.
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1 online resource (viii, 197 pages cm)
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| ISBN
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0511246668
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: 0511617666
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: 0521617561
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: 0521852080
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: 9780511246661
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: 9780511617669
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: 9780521617567
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: 9780521852081
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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1. Stage fright : the predicament of the actor -- 2. Embarrassment : the predicament of the audience -- 3. The animal on stage -- 4. Mutual predicaments : corpsing and fiasco.
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| Abstract
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"Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? In trying to answer these questions - usually ignored by theatre scholarship but of enduring interest to theatre professionals and audiences alike - Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. The book focuses on the theatrical encounter - those events in which actor and audience come face to face in a strangely compromised and alienated intimacy - arguing that the modern theatre has become a place where we entertain ourselves by experimenting with our feelings about work, social relations and about feelings themselves."--Jacket
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Acting-- Psychological aspects.
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Stage fright.
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Theater audiences-- Psychological aspects.
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Acting-- Psychological aspects.
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Lampenfieber
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Acting Auditioning.
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Stage fright.
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Theater audiences-- Psychological aspects.
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Theater
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Tiere
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| Dewey Classification
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792/.028019
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| LC Classification
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PN2071.P78R53 2006
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