Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off: theatre etiquette in an age of outsourcing

This intervention draws on poststructuralist Marxist and post-autonomist theory to analyze the recent spate of 'mobile phone incidents' in London's West End theatres, arguing that the context for this newly emerged faux pas must be understood to be the economic restructuring of West E...

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Published inStudies in theatre and performance Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 193 - 197
Main Author Halligan, Benjamin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol, Eng Routledge 01.07.2009
Intellect
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Subjects
aura
British theater
Cellular telephones
Economic impact
Economic theory
Etiquette
London West End theatres
Marxism
mobile phones
multitude
Poststructuralism
silence
West End theater
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Summary:This intervention draws on poststructuralist Marxist and post-autonomist theory to analyze the recent spate of 'mobile phone incidents' in London's West End theatres, arguing that the context for this newly emerged faux pas must be understood to be the economic restructuring of West End theatre culture and a resultant essential incompatibility between theatre, as sold, and theatre subject to neo-liberal models of outsourcing.
ISSN:1468-2761
2040-0616
DOI:10.1386/stap.29.2.193_3