How do audiences look at an actor in costume onstage? Monks explores this question, engaging with the main theoretical approaches to the study of actors in performance. The book considers costume's power to shape identity and form bodies drawing on examples from Modernist performance to nudity and stage ghosts.
How do audiences look at an actor in costume onstage? Monks explores this question, engaging with the main theoretical approaches to the study of acto...
Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Exploring costume's role and function in a variety of theoretical, historical, conceptual and practical contexts, this exciting volume also reflects on the broader relationship between costume and visual culture throughout.
Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Exploring costume's role and function in a va...
