Locating the Audience

How People Found Value in National Theatre Wales

By: Kirsty Sedgman

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eBook | 1 February 2016 | Edition Number 1

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How do audiences experience live performances? What is gained when a national theatre is born? These questions and more are the subject of Locating the Audience, the first in-depth study of how people form relationships with a new theatre company. Investigating the inaugural season of National Theatre Wales, Kirsty Sedgman explores how different people felt about the way their communities were 'engaged' and their places 'performed' by the theatre's productions. Mapping the complex interplay between audience experience and identity, the book presents a significant contribution to our contemporary project of defining cultural value. Rather than understanding value as an end point, 'impact', Sedgman makes the provocative claim that cultural value can better be understood as a process.

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'The thrust of her argument is that 'di?erent kinds of knowledge can be produced by accessing actual audience talk' (10 [original emphasis]). Perhaps the most exciting part of the book, consequently, is the empirical data it presents and the analysis of records of responses gathered through interviews at From Mountain, Sand & Sea (directed by Marc Rees in Barmouth, Wales) and Te Persians (directed by Mike Pearson in the Brecon Beacon Mountains, Wales). More than bounded by the located nature of the performances studied and their Welsh geography, Locating the Audience seeks to open up wider questions about perceptions of participation, of place in performance and of who gets to speak of cultural value, on what terms, and with what authority or confidence.'

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