Monica Prendergast is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences at Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her numerous journal publication credits include an award-winning essay in Research in Drama Education, as well as articles in Theatre Topics, the Journal of Aesthetic Education, Qualitative Inquiry, and the International Journal of Education and the Arts. Chapters contributions appear in the International Handbook of Research in Arts Education (coauthored with Dr. Carl Leggo) and Drama as Social Intervention, and a poetic preface appears in Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre. Her forthcoming book publication is a co-edited collection; Poetic Inquiry: Vibrant Voices in the Social Sciences. Dr. Prendergast’s research interests include drama/theatre education and applied theatre, curriculum and critical pedagogy, performance studies, aesthetic and utopian philosophy, arts-based research methodologies, and cultural literacy.

Introduction: Freeing the Captive Audience: Performance, Education,
and Everyday Life in Dramatized World

Chapter 1: “Playing Attention”: Contemporary Aesthetics
and Performing Arts Audience Education

Chapter 2: “Shaped Like a Question Mark”: Losing/Locating
the Audience in Performance Theory

Chapter 3: Found Poetry as Literature Review: Research Poems
on Audience and Performance

Chapter 4: The “Ideal Spectator”: Dramatic Chorus, Collective Creation,
and Curriculum

Chapter 5: Theatre Audience Education or How to See a Play:
Toward a Curriculum Theory for Spectatorship in the Performing Arts

Chapter 6: Pedagogy of the Spectator: On Teaching
and Learning Through Performance

Chapter 7: What Begins?: Audience in Performance Studies
in Education

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