| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 311 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 24 |
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Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 24.
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| Contents |
pt. I. Placements and boundaries. The theatre ici / Marvin Carlson -- Monarchs on trial at the early modern court / Janette Dillon -- What time is this place? : continuity, conflict, and the right to the city -- lessons from Haymarket Square / Loren Kruger -- Performing like a city : London's South Bank and the cultural politics of urban governance / Michael McKinnie -- What is Sydney about Sydney Theatre? : performance space and the creation of a "matrix of sensibility" / Gay Mcauley -- Thresholds of tolerance : censorship, artistic freedom, and the theatrical public sphere / Christopher Balme -- "Set in Poland, that is to say nowhere" : Alfred Jarry and the politics of topological space / Nicolas Salazar-Sutil. pt. II. Utopia and heterotopia. Equality and theatre architecture : Voltaire's private theatre / Ludger Schwarte -- Rousseau's heterotopology of the theatre / Juliane Rebentisch -- Heterotopias of the public sphere : theatre and festival around 1800 / Patrick Primavesi -- Other space or space of others? : reflections on contemporary political theatre / Benjamin Wihstutz -- Opeŕa Pagai'̈s Entreprise de Det́ournement : collages of geographic, imaginary, and discursive spaces / Susan Haedicke). pt. III. Strategies of spatial appropriation. Politics of spatial appropriation / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- "Moment to moment-space" : the architecture performances of Gordon Matta-Clark / Philip Ursprung -- Uncanny connections : William Forsythe's choreographic installations / Kirsten Maar -- Change through rapprochement : spatial practices in contemporary performances / Jens Roselt -- Life politics/life aesthetics : environmental performance in red, black & GREEN : a blues |
| Summary |
"From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is intimately tied to politics: a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts. This collection examines what is at stake when a theatrical space is created and when a performance takes place; it asks under what circumstances the topology of theatre becomes political. The book approaches this issue from various angles, taking theatre as a cultural paradigm for political dimensions of space in its respective historical context. Visiting the political dimensions of theatrical space in both theatre history and contemporary performance, the volume responds to the so-called spatial turn in cultural and historical studies, and questions a politics of aesthetics that is discussed in continental philosophy. The book visits different levels and linkages between aesthetic theory and geography, art and sociology, architecture and political theory, and geometry and history, shedding new light on theatre, politics, and space, thereby transforming this historically intertwined triad into a transdisciplinary theme"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| In |
EBL |
| Subject |
Theater -- Philosophy.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
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Theater -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fischer-Lichte, Erika, edtior
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Wihstutz, Benjamin, 1978- editor.
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| LC no. |
2012013785 |
| ISBN |
9781136210273 |
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113621027X |
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9780203094914 |
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0203094913 |
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9781283861342 |
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1283861348 |
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9781136210228 |
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1136210229 |
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9781136210266 |
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1136210261 |
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9781138937024 |
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1138937029 |
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