Theory for Theatre Studies: Space

ISBN-13: 9781350006065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str.

Canad Western University Kim (Professor of Theatre Studies

Opis

Part of the new Theory for Theatre Studies, this is a foundational text for students of theatre and performance. The book provides an introduction to theories of space as they have been understood in critical discussions of theatrical productions and performances, and is underpinned by substantive case studies.

Recenzje

Theory for Theatre Studies investigates a wide range of methodologies to corroborate longstanding discourse surrounding space, place, and performance. Solga uses this volume to examine how new understandings of theatrical and performance events can evolve from varying approaches to and in theatrical spaces. A self-proclaimed modern feminist, Solga is also author of Theatre and Feminism (2016) and Violence against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts (2009). From speculative queries to in-depth case studies, the present title offers insight into historical dramatic theories and unpacks 20th-century theater trends. Summing Up: Recommended. CHOICE

Spis treści

AcknowledgementsSeries PrefaceIntroduction: Making Room for Space at the TheatreLocate YourselfThe Way AheadSection One: Methodologies and ApproachesThe Back Story: The Spaces of Classical Dramatic TheoryContemporary Lens #1:Theatre and the Production of Social SpaceContemporary Lens #2:Genre and "Topographic" SpaceContemporary Lens #3:The Heterotopic StageSection Two: Extended Case StudiesCase Study #1: 'And While London Burns'Case Study #2: 'Fräulein Julie'Case Study #3: 'The Shipment'Section Three: Towards a Decolonized StageLocating Settler ColonialismSeeing Like a Settler"A Concert and a Conversation": 'Kiinalik - These Sharp Tools'NotesFurther readingBibliographyIndex

O autorze

Kim Solga is Associate Professor of English and Writing Studies at Western University, Canada. Kim Solga is Associate Professor of English and Writing Studies at Western University, Canada. Susan Bennett is University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is the author of Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception (1997, 2nd edition), Performing Nostalgia (1996), and Theatre & Museums (2013). Among her edited volumes are Shakespeare Beyond English (co-edited with Christie Carson, 2013) and Performing Environments: Site-Specificity on the Early Modern Stage (co-edited with Mary Polito, 2014). She was editor of Theatre Journal from 1997-2001 and has also edited or co-edited special issues of other theatre and performance journals.