Spotlight on the audience: collective creativity in recent documentary and reality theatre from Australia and Germany

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    Abstract

    This essay analyses the crucial role of audiences in the collective processes of ascribing meaning to theatre performances with an interest in the "real". Focusing on recent performances by Version 1.0 in Australia and Rimini Protokoll in Germany, it illustrates how the making of collective memory and processes of collectively ascribing authenticity can be interpreted as simultaneously influenced by transcultural artistic developments and by locally shaped audience expectations which respond to a specific cultural place and time.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationCollective creativity
    Subtitle of host publicationcollaborative work in the sciences, literature and the arts
    EditorsGerhard Fischer, Florian Vassen
    Place of PublicationAmsterdam ; New York
    PublisherRodopi
    Pages313-328
    Number of pages16
    ISBN (Print)9789042032736
    Publication statusPublished - 2011

    Publication series

    NameInternationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
    PublisherRodopi
    Number148

    Keywords

    • 'Reality Theatre'
    • audiences
    • collective memory
    • authenticity
    • Australian and German theatre

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