Dark Matter - Invisibility in Drama, Theater, and Performance

Physicists have discovered that the vast majority of the universe's mass is constituted by what remains transparent. So far, this mysterious "dark matter” can only be traced by its gravitational effects on visible matter. Taking up this analogy, theatre scholar Andrew Sofer outlines a fresh theoretical framework and critical vocabulary for examining the invisible and how it continually structures and focuses an audience's theatrical experience.

About the author

Andrew Sofer teaches in the English department at Boston College, USA.

Summary

Meditations on those entities the audience does not see—and their profound significance in the theater

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Sofer
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2013
• EAN: 9780472072040
• ISBN: 978-0-472-07204-0
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance; Theater: Theory/Text/Performan; Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies