Audience Revolution: Dispatches from the Field
A collection of thoughtful and provocative reflections on how theatre practitioners think about and engage with audiences, as well as define and explore sites for performance. Through shared experience and ritual, live performance functions as a catalytic medium for progress and evolution. In the hands of artists and audience, the stage is set for the re-makings of commonwealth, or necessary revolution

"Throughout the pages of this collection, a wide range of voices sound the joy and fury of being in the trenches of the volatile discourse of enacting, staging, and sharing the experience of performance. The cultural workers in this book seek a revolution of heart, mind, and spirit. They question who we are and consistently ask that hospitality and its uses be placed at the center of the shared theatrical experience."
—Caridad Svich, from the Introduction

Contributors Include:
Tanuja Amarasuriya, Brian Bell, Deborah Brevoort, Alison Carey, Lenora Champagne, Clay McLeod Chapman, Lisa D’Amour, Nathan Alan Davis, J.J. El-Far, Larissa FastHorse, Andy Field, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Jacqueline Goldfinger, Dipika Guha, Juli Hendren, Brian Eugenio Herrera, Melissa Hillman, Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway, Michael Hoyt, Jeff Janisheski, Callie Kimball, Adrianne Krstansky Kevin Lawler, Corey Madden, Ana Margineanu, Diana Damian Martin,Justin Maxwell, Applied Mechanics, Elsa Menéndez, Richard Montoya, Steve Moore, Itamar Moses, Barney Norris, Kira Obolensky, Jules Odendahl-James, Sylvan Oswald, Katie Pearl, Bill Rauch, Thomas Riccio, Jay Ruby Madeline Sayet, Ashley Sparks, Caridad Svich, Carlton Turner, Roberto G. Varea, Dave White, Jake Witlen, Deborah Yarchun

TCG Sourcebooks is a new series which gathers resources and field conversations generated from current TCG programs. Each volume is published in both paperback and eBook editions and offers varied perspectives by and for theatre practitioners. Other titles in this series include Innovation in Five Acts: Strategies for Theatre and Performance, edited by Caridad Svich.

Caridad Svich received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in the theater, a 2012 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for GUAPA, and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for her play The House of the Spirits, based on the Isabel Allende novel.


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Audience Revolution: Dispatches from the Field
A collection of thoughtful and provocative reflections on how theatre practitioners think about and engage with audiences, as well as define and explore sites for performance. Through shared experience and ritual, live performance functions as a catalytic medium for progress and evolution. In the hands of artists and audience, the stage is set for the re-makings of commonwealth, or necessary revolution

"Throughout the pages of this collection, a wide range of voices sound the joy and fury of being in the trenches of the volatile discourse of enacting, staging, and sharing the experience of performance. The cultural workers in this book seek a revolution of heart, mind, and spirit. They question who we are and consistently ask that hospitality and its uses be placed at the center of the shared theatrical experience."
—Caridad Svich, from the Introduction

Contributors Include:
Tanuja Amarasuriya, Brian Bell, Deborah Brevoort, Alison Carey, Lenora Champagne, Clay McLeod Chapman, Lisa D’Amour, Nathan Alan Davis, J.J. El-Far, Larissa FastHorse, Andy Field, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Jacqueline Goldfinger, Dipika Guha, Juli Hendren, Brian Eugenio Herrera, Melissa Hillman, Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway, Michael Hoyt, Jeff Janisheski, Callie Kimball, Adrianne Krstansky Kevin Lawler, Corey Madden, Ana Margineanu, Diana Damian Martin,Justin Maxwell, Applied Mechanics, Elsa Menéndez, Richard Montoya, Steve Moore, Itamar Moses, Barney Norris, Kira Obolensky, Jules Odendahl-James, Sylvan Oswald, Katie Pearl, Bill Rauch, Thomas Riccio, Jay Ruby Madeline Sayet, Ashley Sparks, Caridad Svich, Carlton Turner, Roberto G. Varea, Dave White, Jake Witlen, Deborah Yarchun

TCG Sourcebooks is a new series which gathers resources and field conversations generated from current TCG programs. Each volume is published in both paperback and eBook editions and offers varied perspectives by and for theatre practitioners. Other titles in this series include Innovation in Five Acts: Strategies for Theatre and Performance, edited by Caridad Svich.

Caridad Svich received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in the theater, a 2012 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for GUAPA, and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for her play The House of the Spirits, based on the Isabel Allende novel.


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A collection of thoughtful and provocative reflections on how theatre practitioners think about and engage with audiences, as well as define and explore sites for performance. Through shared experience and ritual, live performance functions as a catalytic medium for progress and evolution. In the hands of artists and audience, the stage is set for the re-makings of commonwealth, or necessary revolution

"Throughout the pages of this collection, a wide range of voices sound the joy and fury of being in the trenches of the volatile discourse of enacting, staging, and sharing the experience of performance. The cultural workers in this book seek a revolution of heart, mind, and spirit. They question who we are and consistently ask that hospitality and its uses be placed at the center of the shared theatrical experience."
—Caridad Svich, from the Introduction

Contributors Include:
Tanuja Amarasuriya, Brian Bell, Deborah Brevoort, Alison Carey, Lenora Champagne, Clay McLeod Chapman, Lisa D’Amour, Nathan Alan Davis, J.J. El-Far, Larissa FastHorse, Andy Field, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Jacqueline Goldfinger, Dipika Guha, Juli Hendren, Brian Eugenio Herrera, Melissa Hillman, Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway, Michael Hoyt, Jeff Janisheski, Callie Kimball, Adrianne Krstansky Kevin Lawler, Corey Madden, Ana Margineanu, Diana Damian Martin,Justin Maxwell, Applied Mechanics, Elsa Menéndez, Richard Montoya, Steve Moore, Itamar Moses, Barney Norris, Kira Obolensky, Jules Odendahl-James, Sylvan Oswald, Katie Pearl, Bill Rauch, Thomas Riccio, Jay Ruby Madeline Sayet, Ashley Sparks, Caridad Svich, Carlton Turner, Roberto G. Varea, Dave White, Jake Witlen, Deborah Yarchun

TCG Sourcebooks is a new series which gathers resources and field conversations generated from current TCG programs. Each volume is published in both paperback and eBook editions and offers varied perspectives by and for theatre practitioners. Other titles in this series include Innovation in Five Acts: Strategies for Theatre and Performance, edited by Caridad Svich.

Caridad Svich received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in the theater, a 2012 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for GUAPA, and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for her play The House of the Spirits, based on the Isabel Allende novel.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781559365413
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Publication date: 07/19/2016
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Caridad Svich received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in the theatre, a 2012 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for GUAPA, and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for her play The House of the Spirits, based on the Isabel Allende novel.

Table of Contents

Program Description Audience (Revolution) ix

Foreword: Audience Revolutions Alison Carey Bill Rauch x

Introduction: Dispatches from the Field Caridad Svich xii

Chapter 1 Evolution And Resistance

Evolution > Revolution? Carlton Turner 3

Community/Resistance: Reflections on Discourse and Community Diana Damian Martin 8

The Lies We Tell About Audience Engagement Melissa Hillman 13

It Takes a Village to Raise a Theatre Jules Odendahl-James 18

Activating Audience: Theatre of Radical Inclusion Applied Mechanics 23

Back to the Future Deborah Brevoort 26

Inside Out Corey Madden 31

Teaching Students to Create for Contemporary Audiences Jacqueline Goldfinger 36

Ancient Technologies for Modern Times Jeff Janisheski 39

Building Bridges Dave White 42

Let's get punk rock about this Sylvan Oswald 46

Only for "Black" Shows: Black Audiences on Standby Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway 48

For Love of the Ceremony: Thoughts on Audiences and New-Play Festivals Nathan Alan Davis 51

Ask Your Artists Larissa FastHorse 55

Guest in House as God in House: Hospitality as Principle and Practice for Albuquerque's Tricklock Company Brian Eugenio Herrera Juli Hendren Elsa Menéndez 57

Chapter 2 Seeing

I'll Be Your One-Way Mirror: Crossing the Fourth Wall Clay McLeod Chapman 67

Making Eye Contact with Millennials: The Ephemeral and the Visceral Justin Maxwell 71

Setting the Table Lenora Champagne 76

Challenging "Excellence" in American Theatre Richard Montoya 81

The Dreams We Make Madeline Sayet 85

When Your Play Is Set in a Yarn-Bombed Hardware Store Callie Kimball 90

Relaxed Performances, "Crip Time," and Access for All J.J. El-Far 96

Where Art Is Equal Dipika Guha 100

Chapter 3 Place and Play

Narrative of Place Thomas Riccio 107

A Rumination on Audience Development and a Short Series of Unwieldy Questions Kevin Lawler 112

Playing in Cities Andy Field 115

Imagining Audiences Kira Obolensky 121

The Spectator: Coauthor of My Shows Ana Margineanu 124

Crafting a Participatory Performance Space Deborah Yarchun 129

Pillsbury House + Theatre Michael Hoyt 135

Stories 'Round the Campfire Amparo Garcia-Crow 139

MILTON: A Performance and Community-Engagement Experiment Katie Pearl Lisa D'Amour Ashley Sparks 142

New Opportunities for Surprise Steve Moore 152

Theatre and the Net: Projects and Possibilities Brian Bell 154

Space for Theatre Jake Witlen 159

Chapter 4 Being

The Act of Recognition Barney Norris 167

We Are Not Alone Adrianne Krstansky 172

Art Is People Roberto G. Varea 174

The Volt (of Resistance) Jay Ruby 181

What Remains? Tanuja Amarasuriya 186

Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (Even If) You Can't Always Get What You Want (or, how the Smiths and the Rolling Stones can teach us a thing or two about theatre) Caridad Svich 189

The Reminder Itamar Moses 196

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