THEA 2210 Lecture 7: Lecture 7
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. oscar wilde. Theatre and its audiences: framing of perception and feelings. What is the role of feelings in the relationship between the staging of drama and social issues: this is one of the most important relations in the theatre. Through its form and content, it frames the feelings we are going to encounter in that moment. The stage drama and the framing of feelings. Aims to staging shapes the way we discover ourselves in the theatre. Feeling is the most consequential component of theatre because it helps us connect viscerally to the stories from the production. Feelings draws us into the symbolic universe of the theatrical performance by connecting us emotionally with the characters (hurley, 2010:9-10).
