1 A public experience
The title of this book makes it appear as though there is some problem(s), or maybe some difficulty, in viewing theatre and performance. Watching theatre and performance seems like a pretty straightforward endeavor. What can go wrong? Or, rather, what is problematic about viewing performance?
Exploring the fine lines among individual, private, shared, and public experiences—and other philosophical problems that emerge from having multiple viewers—The Problems of Viewing Performance is a philosophical inquiry into individual and community viewings of performance (i.e., theatre, performance, and performance art). This book looks at the ways in which reception theory and performance studies have not ...
