TY - BOOK AU - Welton,Martin TI - Feeling theatre SN - 9781349319015 AV - PN2049 .W46 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Theater KW - Psychological aspects KW - Theater audiences KW - Psychology KW - Actors KW - Acting KW - Emotions (Philosophy) N1 - K_B; Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-179) and index; Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Introduction -- Shows of Feeling -- Feeling Your Way in the Dark -- The Sensuousness of Silence -- Somewhere, Somehow -- Bringing the Weather Indoors -- Afterword N2 - "Why is it that in going to see plays we are also touched or moved by them, and is there more than metaphor involved in such claims? Considering these and other questions, this book examines a range of contemporary performance works in which performers and their audiences occupy a shared realm of feelings, in which the play is not always the thing"-- ER -