| Description |
1 online resource (137 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction; Theatre Symposium Keynote Roundtable: Saturday, April 12, 2008; "No Roof Except the Sky": The Rise and Fall of Airdomes in American Popular Entertainment; Rail-izing the Nation along Lake Michigan: The Wheels-a-Rolling Pageant; Mormon Pageants as American Historical Performance; "Look at the Moon": Hunter Hills Theatre; Outdoor Drama in the Smokies; The Promise of Democracy: Imagining National Community in Paul Green's The Lost Colony; The Revitalization of Space: Freestyle Parkour and Its Audiences; Symposium Response; Contributors |
| Summary |
Outdoor drama takes many forms: ancient Greek theatre, open-air performances of Shakespeare at summer festivals, and re-enactments of landmark historical events. The essays gathered in "Outdoor Performance," Volume 17 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium, address outdoor theatre's many manifestations, including the historical and non-traditional. Among other subjects, these essays explore the rise of "airdomes" as performance spaces in the American Midwest in the first half of the 20th century; the civic-religious pageants staged by certain Mormon congregations; Wheels- |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Theater, Open-air.
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Theater -- Congresses
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Theater.
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Theater, Open-air.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Headrick, Charlotte J
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LoMonaco, Martha S
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Barnette, Jane
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Bruegge, Andrew Vorder
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Williams, Jeanmarie Higgins
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Gallagher, Angela Sweigart
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Magnuson, Landis K
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| ISBN |
9780817382971 |
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0817382976 |
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