[ePub] Languages of Theatre Shaped by Women by Jane De Gay; Elizbeth Goodman in Arts-Photography

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This original analysis of contemporary British pantomime addresses the question of how pantomime creates a unique interactive relationship with; and potentially transformative experience for; its audiences.British This is an accessible and valuable text that encourages readers to review their assumptions about pantomime and reconsider its importance as a popular theatre form.pantomime draws audiences into the story; an engagement with the hero; and an empathetic attachment to the success of the quest. Attention is held by the familiarity of the event; and the comedians draw the audience into a relationship of complicity as they unite to create the unique experience of the live interactive performance. At other times the audience is diverted by the artifice of dance; the illusion of transformation and the surreal playfulness of physical and verbal comedy. The trick of pantomime is to maintain an effective balance between the intellectual appreciation of artifice; the chaotic complicity of interactivity; and the emotional engagement of story-telling.