Dr Ian Wilkie I.Wilkie1@salford.ac.uk
Lecturer
Through Wall’s Chink’. Or, Audience Interplay in Comic Acting
Wilkie, I
Authors
Contributors
C Olsen
Editor
Abstract
All forms of live performance require the establishment of some kind of interplay between the performer and audience. The presentation of a theatrical event requires the making of a ‘contract’ (Verma in Giannachi and Luckhurst 1999: 129) wherein performers and audience enter into a specialised form of intercommunication. Live performance, as a system of communication, requires each party to play their pre-established and ongoing role within the pretence; to suspend disbelief for the duration of the action; and to respond in particular ways to the event’s action as it unfolds. As Aston and Savona note in Theatre as Sign-System, ‘the spectator … is engaged in a project of creative collaboration with the dramatist and actor in the interest of a more complete realisation of the performance’ (1991: 160).
Citation
Wilkie, I. (2015). Through Wall’s Chink’. Or, Audience Interplay in Comic Acting. In C. Olsen (Ed.), Acting Comedy (5-24). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315709673
Acceptance Date | Jan 1, 2015 |
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Online Publication Date | Aug 27, 2016 |
Publication Date | Sep 8, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Mar 29, 2016 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 5-24 |
Book Title | Acting Comedy |
ISBN | 9781138891418-(paperback);-9781138891401-(hardback);-9781315709673-(ebook) |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315709673 |
Publisher URL | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315709673 |
Related Public URLs | https://www.routledge.com/Acting-Comedy/Olsen/p/book/9781138891418 |
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