Author(s)

Huiyan Sun ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Freelancer

Corresponding Author

Huiyan Sun

ABSTRACT

This study focuses on the issue of identity in the actor-audience relationship within the category of environmental theatre. Environmental theatre shows a situation in which actors and audiences have no clear boundaries of distance. Actors and audience no longer exist only on and off stage in the theatre, the actor-audience relationship created by architectural sites is broken down. I will take an environmental theatre play staged at the Aranya Theatre Festival in China in June 2021 as a case study to illustrate what is broken in the actor-audience relationship and what identities are reconstructed, as well as the continuity and limitations of the play.

KEYWORDS

Environmental Theatre, Identity, Immersive Theatre

CITE THIS PAPER

Huiyan Sun, The Actor-Audience Relationship in Environmental Theatre: Breaking and Reconstructing of Identity. Art and Performance Letters (2023) Vol. 4: 69-73. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/artpl.2023.040413.

REFERENCES

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[2] Richard Schechner, (1971) On Environmental Design, Educational theatre journal [Online] 23 (4), 379.
[3] Richard Schechner, (1971) On Environmental Design, Educational theatre journal [Online] 23 (4), 379-380
[4] Richard Schechner, (1968) 6 Axioms for Environmental Theatre, The Drama review, 12 (3), 56
[5] Brook P., (2008) The empty space, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 9
[6] Richard Schechner, (1968) 6 Axioms for Environmental Theatre, The Drama review, 12 (3), 63
[7] White G. (2012) On Immersive Theatre, Theatre research international [Online] 37 (3), 221

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