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The Reasonable Audience

Theatre Etiquette, Behaviour Policing, and the Live Performance Experience

By: Kirsty Sedgman

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The Reasonable Audience

Theatre Etiquette, Behaviour Policing, and the Live Performance Experience

By: Kirsty Sedgman

Audiences are not what they used to be. Munching crisps or snapping selfies, chatting loudly or charging phones onstage – bad behaviour in theatre is apparently on the rise. And lately some spectators have begun to fight back... The Reasonable Audience explores the recent trend of ‘theatre etiquette’: an audience-led crusade to bring ‘manners and respect’ back to the auditorium. This comes at a time when, around the world, arts institutions are working to balance the traditional pleasures of receptive quietness with the need to foster more inclusive experiences. Through investigating the rhetorics of morality underpinning both sides of the argument, this book examines how models of 'good' and 'bad' spectatorship are constructed and legitimised. Is theatre etiquette actually snobbish? Are audiences really more selfish? Who gets to decide what counts as ‘reasonable’ within public space?Using theatre etiquette to explore wider issues of social participation, cultural exclusion, and the politics of identity, Kirsty Sedgman asks what it means to police the behaviour of others.

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On Being Unreasonable

Breaking the Rules and Making Things Better

By: Kirsty Sedgman

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On Being Unreasonable

Breaking the Rules and Making Things Better

By: Kirsty Sedgman

Manners, order and respect... these are all ideals we subscribe to. In opposed positions, we ought to be able to 'agree to disagree'. Today's world is built from structures of standards and reason, but it is imperative to ask who constructed these norms, and why. We are more divided than ever before-along lines of race, gender, class, disability-and it's time to question who benefits the most. What if our propensity to measure human behaviour against rules and reason is actually more problematic than it might seem? Kirsty Sedgman shows how power dynamics and the social biases involved have resulted in a wide acceptance of what people should and shouldn't do, but they create discriminatory realities and amount to a societal façade that is dangerous for genuine social progress. From taking the knee to breastfeeding in public, from neighbourhood vigilantism to the Colston Four-and exploring ideas around ethics, justice, society, and equality along the way-Sedgman explores notions of civility throughout history up to now. On Being Unreasonable mounts a vital and spirited defence of why and how being unreasonable can help improve the world. It examines and parses the pros and cons of our rules around reason, but leaves us with the rousing question: What if behaving unreasonably at times might be the best way to bring about meaningful change that is long overdue?

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The Reasonable Audience

Theatre Etiquette, Behaviour Policing, and the Live Performance Experience

By: Kirsty Sedgman

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The Reasonable Audience

Theatre Etiquette, Behaviour Policing, and the Live Performance Experience

By: Kirsty Sedgman

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178

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Springer

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3319991663

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9783319991665

On Being Unreasonable

Breaking the Rules and Making Things Better

By: Kirsty Sedgman

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On Being Unreasonable

Breaking the Rules and Making Things Better

By: Kirsty Sedgman

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Faber & Faber

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0571366872

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9780571366873

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The Reasonable Audience

The Reasonable Audience

On Being Unreasonable

On Being Unreasonable

The Reasonable Audience

The Reasonable Audience

On Being Unreasonable

On Being Unreasonable

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