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The Creative Spectator: The Lobby as an Interactive Space

McCully, Abigail Lynn
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1598263050423455

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2020, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Theatre.
This MA Thesis seeks to continue a longstanding conversation in Theatre Studies about the role of the audience by looking at the concept of active and passive spectators through the lens of play theory and establishing a new category of creative spectator. This study analyzes the way of conceptualizing and engaging visitors in a “visitor-centered museum” developed by the Columbus Museum of Art in 2012 to argue that this method can be adapted and applied to theatre spectators. Finally, I suggest various strategies for transforming theatre lobbies into audience-dominated spaces, which shifts the focus of scholarly conversation away from how spectators perceive what they see on stage, a space controlled by actors, designers, and directors, to what they see and how they interact with material in a space over which they can have more control in the process of making. Using this field of theory and praxis moves the conversation of spectatorship from the stage to audience-dominated spaces, in particular, the lobby.
Ana Puga, DFA (Advisor)
Jennifer Schlueter, MFA (Committee Member)
55 p.
Museums; Performing Arts; Theater
theatre lobby, creative spectatorship, museums

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  • McCully, A. L. (2020). The Creative Spectator: The Lobby as an Interactive Space [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1598263050423455

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McCully, Abigail. The Creative Spectator: The Lobby as an Interactive Space. 2020. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1598263050423455.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McCully, Abigail. "The Creative Spectator: The Lobby as an Interactive Space." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1598263050423455

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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