Audiences and Effectiveness Archives | Canadian Association for Theatre Research

The Audience Flows In

Robin Whittaker2023-06-05T21:51:11+00:00June 5, 2023|

Moderator: Kim McLeod Location: Room 409, Dalhousie Arts Centre Spectating With/Against: How Do Postshow Talkbacks Ask Which Bodies That Matter? Postshow talkbacks invite the audience to pose questions, make remarks, and provide feedback to the cast, director, and dramaturg. In the two talkbacks I witnessed in 2022, for both plays [...]

Springs of Inspiration: Ceremony, Training, and the Performer’s Art

Robin Whittaker2023-06-05T21:43:10+00:00June 5, 2023|

Moderator: Roberta Barker Location: Room 409, Dalhousie Arts Centre Sponsored by the University of Ottawa, Department of Theatre Signalling Through the Flames: Pyroturgs and Theatromancy At what point, what ancient Germano-Greek crossroads of language, did the intellectualization of theatre as a field of knowledge and inquiry become dramaturgy (the work of [...]