| Description |
xviii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Theater in the Americas |
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Theater in the Americas.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: Surveying the Terrain -- 2. Identity Traces: Historiographic Perspectives on Cornerstone and Community-Based Theater -- 3. Perfor(m)ations: Cornerstone and Transactions of Community -- 4. Rural Routes -- 5. Urban Revisions -- 6. Regional Returns: A Tale of Two Collaborations -- 7. Conclusion: Curtain Calls -- App. Cornerstone Production History, 1986-2001 |
| Summary |
"Staging America: Cornerstone and Community-Based Theater by Sonja Kuftinec maps a history and theory of community-based theater in the United States through the Cornerstone Theater Company, detailing how the performance-making process contributes to an ongoing negotiation of American identity. Assisted by twenty-one illustrations, this is the first in-depth investigation of community-based theater that traces historical affiliations connected with the form while critically examining how community-based theater both enables community and challenges the very notion of "community" as a stable site."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-248) and index |
| Subject |
Community theater -- United States.
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| LC no. |
2002008705 |
| ISBN |
0809324962 hardcover alkaline paper |
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