Editors:
- Offers rare insights on how adolescent and post-adolescent young audiences experience and appreciate the theatre
- Results from a six year study involving three Australian states and thirteen major performing arts companies
- A thorough investigation into the extent to which young audiences are part of our society's cultural conversation
Part of the book series: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education (LAAE, volume 12)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
“This extraordinary book thoroughly explains why young people (ages 14-25+) do and do not attend theatre into adulthood by delineating how three inter-linked factors (literacy, confidence, and etiquette) influence their decisions. Given that theatre happens inside spectators’ minds, the authors balance the theatre equation by focusing upon young spectators and thereby dispel numerous beliefs held by theatre artists and educators. Each clearly written chapter engages readers with astute insights and compelling examples of pertinent responses from young people, teachers, and theatre professionals. To stem the tide of decreasing theatre attendance, this highly useful book offers pragmatic strategies for artistic, educational, and marketing directors, as well as national theatre organizations and arts councils around the world. I have no doubt that its brilliantly conceived research, conducted across multiple contexts in Australia, will make a significant and original contribution to the profession of theatre on an international scale.” Jeanne Klein, University of Kansas, USA
“Young Audiences, Theatre and the Cultural Conversation is a compelling and comprehensive study on attitudes and habits of youth theatre audiences by leading international scholars in the field. This benchmark study offers unique insights by and for theatre makers and administrators, theatre educators and researchers, schools, parents, teachers, students, audience members of all ages.
A key strength within the book centers on the emphasis of the participant voices, particularly the voices of the youth. Youth voices, along with those of teachers and theatre artists, position the extensive field research front and center.” George Belliveau, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Editors and Affiliations
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Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, South Brisbane, Australia
John O'Toole
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Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Ricci-Jane Adams
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Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Michael Anderson, Robyn Ewing
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School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
Bruce Burton
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Young Audiences, Theatre and the Cultural Conversation
Editors: John O'Toole, Ricci-Jane Adams, Michael Anderson, Bruce Burton, Robyn Ewing
Series Title: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7609-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7608-1Published: 08 January 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7943-2Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7609-8Published: 17 December 2013
Series ISSN: 1573-4528
Series E-ISSN: 2214-0069
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 201
Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations
Topics: Creativity and Arts Education, Performing Arts, Early Childhood Education