Theory for theatre studies : sound /
Susan Bennett.
- xi, 151 pages ; 21 cm.
- Theory for theatre studies .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-141) and index.
Theatres in ancient Greece and Aristotle's poetics -- The vocal map of ancient Greek drama -- Case study : Aristophanes's The frogs -- Vitruvius on acoustics : de architectura -- Shakespeare's Globe and Francis Bacon's Sylva sylvarum -- Acoustic world-making on the early modern stage -- Case study : Shakespeare's The tempest -- A sonic imagination of early modern London -- New technologies for sound performance -- Case study : Luigi Russolo's Intonamuri and "the art of noise" -- Hanging on the telephone : Sigmund Freud and Roland Barthes -- Case study : Jean Cocteau's The human voice -- The sounds of silence : John Cage's Future of music -- Acousmatics and radiophonics : Pierre Schaffer and the BBC -- Aura and archive : making sound memories -- Case study : Samuel Beckett's Krapp's last tape -- Prosthetic performance and deterritorialised listening -- Case study : Janet Cardiff's Sound walks -- Listening to women : Andrea Hornick and Luce Irigaray -- Affective theatres of embodied sound -- Case study : Shannon Yee's "Reassembled slightly askew" -- Case study : Rimini Protokoll's Situation rooms -- Coda : sound across the world.
"Sound provides a lively and engaging overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Addressing sound across history and through progressive developments in relevant technologies, the volume opens up the study of theatrical production and live performance to understand conceptual and pragmatic concerns about the sonic. By way of developed case studies (including Aristophanes's The Frogs, Shakespeare's The Tempest, Cocteau's The Human Voice, and Rimini Protokoll's Situation Rooms), readers can explore new methodologies and approaches for their own work on sound as a performance component. In an engagement with the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of sound studies, this book samples exciting new thinking relevant to theatre and performance studies"--