The Empty Space | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Theatre Space - This is any place where theatre is performed.

Theatre - This, as a concept, the author suggests, is in fact not about the building in which its performed or even the play or the text, but is defined by its purpose for existence and by how that purpose manifests.

The Deadly Theatre - This is a performance in which an audience is a spectator, not a participant. In this form of the art, audiences and practitioners alike are essentially unmoved and/or unchanged by what's going on, and in which nothing...
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