Theatre & Nation

ISBN-13: 9780230218710 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 104 str.

Nadine Holdsworth

Opis

How has theatre engaged with the nation-state and helped to formulate national identities? What impact have migration and globalization had on the relationship between theatre and nation?
Theatre and Nation explores how theatre institutions, playwrights, theatre-makers and performance artists engage with the nation, nationalism and national identity in their work. The book argues that theatrical representations of the nation are constantly in flux and that the way theatre engages with the nation changes according to different geographical, political, economic, social and cultural circumstances.Drawing on international examples, Theatre and Nation is essential reading for those studying the relationship between theatre and national identity and theatre and society.

Spis treści

Foreword; Sir Nicholas Hytner.- Introduction.- Nation, National Identity Aand Nationalism.- National Theatres and State-Of-The-Nation Plays.- National Iconography.- Nations Under Duress.- Cosmopolitanism: Beyond The Nation.- Convivial Theatre.- Conclusion.- Further Reading.

O autorze

NADINE HOLDSWORTH is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Joan Littlewood and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama (with Mary Luckhurst).

Blurb

How has theatre engaged with the nation-state and helped to formulate national identities? What impact have migration and globalisation had on the relationship between theatre and nation?

Theatre& Nation explores how theatre institutions, playwrights, theatre-makers and performance artists engage with the nation, nationalism and national identity in their work.
The book argues that theatrical representations of the nation are constantly in flux and that the way theatre engages with the nation changes according to different geographical, political, economic, social and cultural circumstances.
 
Foreword by Nicholas Hytner.