Explores the audience's role in traditional and avant-garde theatre, the impact of the spectator upon the performance itself and surveys past approaches to audience behaviour. A second revised edition with a new chapter on intercultural theatre, a revised introduction and a revised bibliography.
I thought this book was brilliant, an easy read because it is not so full of academic language it cannot be understood and because it was full of examples I had heard of and/or could relate to. I've no doubt if I was academic I would have some clever criticism of its attitudes etc but as my first serious detailed read of the subject matter it seemed sensible and understandable.
Good overview of the topic, nice balance between theory and analysis of specific situations. Read to refresh my memory on this scholarship in preparation to teach a class this fall.