Benjamin Halligan
"Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off": theatre etiquette in an age of outsourcing
Halligan, Benjamin
Authors
Abstract
This intervention draws on poststructuralist Marxist and post-autonomist theory to analyze the recent spate of ‘mobile phone incidents’ in London's West End theatres, arguing that the context for this newly emerged faux pas must be understood to be the economic restructuring of West End theatre culture and a resultant essential incompatibility between theatre, as sold, and theatre subject to neo-liberal models of outsourcing.
Citation
Halligan, B. (2009). "Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off": theatre etiquette in an age of outsourcing. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 22(9), 193-197. https://doi.org/10.1386/stap.29.2.193_3
| Journal Article Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | Jul 1, 2009 |
| Deposit Date | Oct 1, 2010 |
| Journal | Studies in Theatre and Performance |
| Print ISSN | 1468-2761 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Peer Reviewed | Not Peer Reviewed |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 193-197 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1386/stap.29.2.193_3 |
| Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/stap.29.2.193_3 |