Original scientific paper
MODERN THEATER AND THE AUDIENCE OR THE AUDIENCE’S CONTEMPT TO JUSTIFICATION OF ITS ESCAPE
Sanja Nikčević
; Odsjek za kazališnu umjetnost Umjetničke akademije u Osijeku
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APA 6th Edition
Nikčević, S. (2016). MODERN THEATER AND THE AUDIENCE OR THE AUDIENCE’S CONTEMPT TO JUSTIFICATION OF ITS ESCAPE. Dani Hvarskoga kazališta, 42 (1), 149-173. Retrieved from https://hrcak.srce.hr/158040
MLA 8th Edition
Nikčević, Sanja. "MODERN THEATER AND THE AUDIENCE OR THE AUDIENCE’S CONTEMPT TO JUSTIFICATION OF ITS ESCAPE." Dani Hvarskoga kazališta, vol. 42, no. 1, 2016, pp. 149-173. https://hrcak.srce.hr/158040. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
Chicago 17th Edition
Nikčević, Sanja. "MODERN THEATER AND THE AUDIENCE OR THE AUDIENCE’S CONTEMPT TO JUSTIFICATION OF ITS ESCAPE." Dani Hvarskoga kazališta 42, no. 1 (2016): 149-173. https://hrcak.srce.hr/158040
Harvard
Nikčević, S. (2016). 'MODERN THEATER AND THE AUDIENCE OR THE AUDIENCE’S CONTEMPT TO JUSTIFICATION OF ITS ESCAPE', Dani Hvarskoga kazališta, 42(1), pp. 149-173. Available at: https://hrcak.srce.hr/158040 (Accessed 23 December 2024)
Vancouver
Nikčević S. MODERN THEATER AND THE AUDIENCE OR THE AUDIENCE’S CONTEMPT TO JUSTIFICATION OF ITS ESCAPE. Dani Hvarskoga kazališta [Internet]. 2016 [cited 2024 December 23];42(1):149-173. Available from: https://hrcak.srce.hr/158040
IEEE
S. Nikčević, "MODERN THEATER AND THE AUDIENCE OR THE AUDIENCE’S CONTEMPT TO JUSTIFICATION OF ITS ESCAPE", Dani Hvarskoga kazališta, vol.42, no. 1, pp. 149-173, 2016. [Online]. Available: https://hrcak.srce.hr/158040. [Accessed: 23 December 2024]
Full text: english pdf 253 Kb
page 149-173
downloads: 405
cite
APA 6th Edition
Nikčević, S. (2016). MODERN THEATER AND THE AUDIENCE OR THE AUDIENCE’S CONTEMPT TO JUSTIFICATION OF ITS ESCAPE. Dani Hvarskoga kazališta, 42 (1), 149-173. Retrieved from https://hrcak.srce.hr/158040
MLA 8th Edition
Nikčević, Sanja. "MODERN THEATER AND THE AUDIENCE OR THE AUDIENCE’S CONTEMPT TO JUSTIFICATION OF ITS ESCAPE." Dani Hvarskoga kazališta, vol. 42, no. 1, 2016, pp. 149-173. https://hrcak.srce.hr/158040. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
Chicago 17th Edition
Nikčević, Sanja. "MODERN THEATER AND THE AUDIENCE OR THE AUDIENCE’S CONTEMPT TO JUSTIFICATION OF ITS ESCAPE." Dani Hvarskoga kazališta 42, no. 1 (2016): 149-173. https://hrcak.srce.hr/158040
Harvard
Nikčević, S. (2016). 'MODERN THEATER AND THE AUDIENCE OR THE AUDIENCE’S CONTEMPT TO JUSTIFICATION OF ITS ESCAPE', Dani Hvarskoga kazališta, 42(1), pp. 149-173. Available at: https://hrcak.srce.hr/158040 (Accessed 23 December 2024)
Vancouver
Nikčević S. MODERN THEATER AND THE AUDIENCE OR THE AUDIENCE’S CONTEMPT TO JUSTIFICATION OF ITS ESCAPE. Dani Hvarskoga kazališta [Internet]. 2016 [cited 2024 December 23];42(1):149-173. Available from: https://hrcak.srce.hr/158040
IEEE
S. Nikčević, "MODERN THEATER AND THE AUDIENCE OR THE AUDIENCE’S CONTEMPT TO JUSTIFICATION OF ITS ESCAPE", Dani Hvarskoga kazališta, vol.42, no. 1, pp. 149-173, 2016. [Online]. Available: https://hrcak.srce.hr/158040. [Accessed: 23 December 2024]
Abstract
The role of audience in the theatre dramatically changed from equal participants in periods of ritual theatre (Classicism, Middle Ages) to the so-called »imitating« periods (Renaissance and Neoclassicism) where audience needed specialized knowledge to watch a play. The twentieth century deepened the gap between mainstream theatre and audience completely. Since directors’/ post dramatic theatre, which is for the most part violent, shocking and non-communicative, started dominating the mainstream theatre, audience started protesting. Mainstream theatre and theory reacted promptly and declared audience incompetent, calling them »backward, uneducated and uninformed«. In response, audience started to leave theatre in eighties, which seriously worried financiers but not theatres. To avoid complaints about lack of audience, directors cut down theatre auditoriums, searched for new (smaller) facilities, justified a small number of performances by co productions, and sometimes manipulated with audience number data.
Keywords
Twentieth Century; audience; European theatre; directors’/post dramatic theatre; mainstream theatre
Hrčak ID:
158040
URI
https://hrcak.srce.hr/158040
Publication date:
9.5.2016.
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