British Pantomime Performance

Millie Taylor (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2007
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-84150-174-1 (ISBN)

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Offers an analysis of contemporary British pantomime that addresses the question of how pantomime creates a unique interactive relationship with its audiences. This book shows how British pantomime draws audiences into the story, and how the comedians draw the audience into a relationship of complicity.

This book offers an original analysis of contemporary British pantomime that addresses the question of how pantomime creates a unique interactive relationship with, and potentially transformative experience for, its audiences. British pantomime draws audiences into the story, an engagement with the hero, and an empathetic attachment to the success of the quest. Attention is held by the familiarity of the event, and the comedians draw the audience into a relationship of complicity as they unite to create the unique experience of the live interactive performance. At other times, the audience is diverted by the artifice of dance, the illusion of transformation and the surreal playfulness of physical and verbal comedy. The trick of pantomime is to maintain an effective balance between the intellectual appreciation of artifice, the chaotic complicity of interactivity, and the emotional engagement of story-telling. This is an accessible and valuable text that encourages readers to review their assumptions about pantomime and reconsider its importance as a popular theatre form.

Millie Taylor is Reader in Performing Arts at The University of Winchester. After graduating from Birmingham University with a degree in Music, Drama and Dance she worked as a freelance musical director and for almost twenty years toured Britain and Europe with a variety of musicals including West Side Story, Rocky Horror Show, Little Shop of Horrors and Sweeney Todd. Recent publications include British Pantomime Performance (Intellect 2007), Singing for Musicals: A Practical Guide (Crowood Press 2008), and Musical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment (Ashgate Press, 2012).

Prologue: 'What's Behind Them?' - Page 11 - Millie Taylor 1.'Money Matters' - Page 21 - Millie Taylor 2.'Chaos and Disruption in Slapstick and Slosh Scenes' - Page 33 - Millie Taylor 3.'Fantasy and Illusion in Design' - Page 51 - Millie Taylor 4.'Familiarity and Nostalgia in an Oral Tradition' - Page 67 - Millie Taylor 5.'Quests and Transformations in Pantomime Stories' - Page 81 - Millie Taylor 6.'Playing with Distance in Pantoland' - Page 91 - Millie Taylor 7.'Is She or Isn't He? Gender and Identity' - Page 105 - Millie Taylor 8.'Audience Participation, Community and Ritual' - Page 123 - Millie Taylor 9.'Topical Reference and the Unique Event' - Page 135 - Millie Taylor 10.'Artifice and Excess in Pantomime Comedy' - Page 147 - Millie Taylor 11.'Mixing Genres in Pantomime Music' - Page 161 - Millie Taylor 12.'A Utopian Community of Dancers' - Page 175 - Millie Taylor The Epilogue:'What's Entertainment?' - Page 191 - Millie Taylor

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.7.2009
Sprache	englisch
Maße	172 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-84150-174-3 / 1841501743
ISBN-13	978-1-84150-174-1 / 9781841501741
Zustand	Neuware