Silent Partners: Actor and Audience in Geese Theatre's "Journey Woman"

Autor/in	Bottoms, Stephen
Titel	Silent Partners: Actor and Audience in Geese Theatre's "Journey Woman"
Quelle	In: Research in Drama Education, 15 (2010) 4, S.477-496 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-9783
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Theater Arts; Audiences; Foreign Countries; Females; Aesthetics; Theaters; Story Telling; Figurative Language; Dramatics; Dramatic Play; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Theaterwissenschaft; Spectator; Zuschauer; Ausland; Weibliches Geschlecht; Ästhetik; Dramatik; Dramatisches Mittel; Theaterstück; Großbritannien
Abstract	This essay considers the performance context and aesthetics of "Journey Woman", a play devised to initiate a week-long rehabilitative groupwork programme for female prisoners. Although Geese Theatre UK are one of the country's longest-established companies specialising in drama work within the criminal justice sector, this 2006 piece is their first created specifically for female audiences. The essay explores the rationale behind Geese's key aesthetic choices for the piece--including the performers' use of full face masks and the essentially Aristotelian, "tragic" structure of the narrative. These choices distinguish "Journey Woman" from much of the company's other work, and function to establish a quiet, contemplative mode of spectatorial engagement. With reference to critical sources ranging from Ranciere to criminological desistance literature, "Silent Partners" argues that "Journey Woman's" unorthodox aesthetic approach is well-tailored to its target audience. In so doing, the essay also raises wider questions about the ways in which, and degrees to which, applied theatre practitioners seek to render their audiences as "active" participants in the performance process. (Contains 8 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10