Proxemics on Page and Stage: O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night - and Bergman’s

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Authors
  • E. Törnqvist
Publication date 2008
Journal North-West Passage : Yearly Review of the Centre for Northern Performing Arts Studies
Volume | Issue number 5
Pages (from-to) 29-37
Number of pages 9
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract
The article focuses on the production of film director Eugene O'Neill with the "Long Day's Journey into Night" presented at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden, and discusses the proxemics on stage performance. It mentions the levels of proxemic or spatial character relations among the characters in a dramatic and theatrical event including the character-character, the character-spectator, and the spectator-spectator. It notes that the spatial relationship between characters and characters can be described as the distance between characters at any given moment and as the nature of the said distance which can be classified as intimate, personal, social, or public. It also mentions the significance of the proxemic character relations as emphasised by Ingmar Bergman.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1400/117147
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