Reviews for Understanding Michael Frayn

The average rating for Understanding Michael Frayn based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-07-22 00:00:00 Barbara Penhorwood Knowles' books is one of the most important texts on understanding theatre in its socio-cultural context. Although the wide variety of theatre companies, performance venues, performance contexts, and so on prevent Knowles from giving an ideally thorough examination, he provides a lot of clues for what to look at when examining theatrical materialism--including questions about perfromance production, locations, architecture, relations to space and community, promotion, and organization of spaces within the theatre building. The book provides illustrative examples--including a set of case studies which make up the latter half--that flesh out and clarify many of the issues Knowles raises as part of the meaning-making interplay of semiotics and cultural materialism that goes into theatrical production and reception.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-05-12 00:00:00 Barbara Gaynor Great combo of theory in the first section and case studies in the second section (case studies include Stratford Festival).