Whose Voice? Tim Crouch’s The Author and Active Listening on the Contemporary Stage

The essay discusses Tim Crouch’s recent play The Author (2009) in the context of active listening, audience participation, response and responsibility in contemporary theatre. It provides a critical engagement with the spectatorial experience of the piece so as to problematize the multiple uses of t...

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Main Author: Vicky Angelaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2013-07-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/2989
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description The essay discusses Tim Crouch’s recent play The Author (2009) in the context of active listening, audience participation, response and responsibility in contemporary theatre. It provides a critical engagement with the spectatorial experience of the piece so as to problematize the multiple uses of the physical medium of voice and speech in a contemporary play that delivers a fresh angle to narrativity and metatheatricality. At the same time, the essay probes the varied range of possibilities but also realistic extent of audience involvement in the play, tracing its deep textual contingencies to produce an overall understanding of the equally rewarding and precarious interrelationship between performance piece and audience.  
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spelling doaj-art-bd0d248cbf1b40f1a9f4b7c40d743f3a2025-01-30T13:46:49ZengCentre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"Sillages Critiques1272-38191969-63022013-07-011610.4000/sillagescritiques.2989Whose Voice? Tim Crouch’s The Author and Active Listening on the Contemporary StageVicky AngelakiThe essay discusses Tim Crouch’s recent play The Author (2009) in the context of active listening, audience participation, response and responsibility in contemporary theatre. It provides a critical engagement with the spectatorial experience of the piece so as to problematize the multiple uses of the physical medium of voice and speech in a contemporary play that delivers a fresh angle to narrativity and metatheatricality. At the same time, the essay probes the varied range of possibilities but also realistic extent of audience involvement in the play, tracing its deep textual contingencies to produce an overall understanding of the equally rewarding and precarious interrelationship between performance piece and audience.  https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/2989voiceActive listeningTim CrouchThe Authorcontemporary theatreaudience
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title Whose Voice? Tim Crouch’s The Author and Active Listening on the Contemporary Stage
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