Performance Network - 18 November 2013 - The Work of the Audience

Dr Nicholas Ridout (Reader in Theatre and Performance Studies, Queen Mary University of London)Professor Steven Connor (Grace 2 Professor of English, University of Cambridge)Chair: Dr Zoë Svendsen (Director, Dramaturg and Lecturer in Drama, University of Cambridge)---Ridout, thinking about performance as a way of thinking about work, and inspired by a 1711 article in The Spectator (‘The Trunkmaker’, 235) will share some thoughts about slavery and spectatorship. He is the author of Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism and Love (University of Michigan Press, 2013), Stage Fright, Animals and Other Theatrical Problems (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Theatre & Ethics (Palgrave 2009), and co-editor, with Joe Kelleher, of Contemporary Theatres in Europe (Routledge, 2006) and co-author, with Joe Kelleher and members of the company, of The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (Routledge, 2007). Professor Connor is a writer, critic and broadcaster, who has published books on