The Forest and the Field: Changing Theatre in a Changing World - Tapa blanda

Anyone who follows theatre will know that Chris Goode is a poet and theatre-maker who's up there with the very best. --The Guardian Chris Goode has been described as British theatre's greatest maverick talent. But don't be put off: his work as a director, writer and actor is much more enticing than that label suggests... --Independent on Sunday

The Forest and the Field is a polemical thinking-through of the whole concept of theatre as a 'space', and a politically motivated exploration of how, and where, that theatrical space meets the real world that surrounds and suffuses it. The book begins by demolishing the notion of the 'empty space' and drawing careful and suggestive distinctions between 'space' and 'place'. It moves on to consider how the body - of the actor, or of the spectator - is read within the theatrical encounter, and how meaning is created in the turbulent movement of signs between performer and audience. Finally it interrogates the wider relationship between theatre and its 'outside', culminating in an attempt to answer the familiar question of whether theatre can change the world - and, if it can, how it might.