Theatre And The City

Author : Jen Harvie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230364677

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Theatre and the City by Jen Harvie Pdf

How can an understanding of theatre in the city help us make sense of urban social experience? Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. The book evaluates both material conditions (such as architecture) and performative practices (such as urban activism) to argue that both these categories contribute to the complex economies and ecologies of theatre and performance in an increasingly urbanised world. Foreword by Tim Etchells.

Author : Michael McKinnie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442669444

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City Stages by Michael McKinnie Pdf

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Locating theatre companies – their sites and practices – in Toronto’s urban environment, Michael McKinnie focuses on the ways in which the theatre has adapted to changes in civic ideology, environment, and economy. Over the past four decades, theatre in Toronto has been increasingly implicated in the civic self-fashioning of the city and preoccupied with the consequences of the changing urban political economy. City Stages investigates a number of key questions that relate to this pattern. How has theatre been used to justify certain forms of urban development in Toronto? How have local real estate markets influenced the ways in which theatre companies acquire and use performance space? How does the analysis of theatre as an urban phenomenon complicate Canadian theatre historiography? McKinnie uses the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts as case studies and considers theatrical companies such as Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto Workshop Productions, Buddies in Bad Times, and Necessary Angel in his analysis. City Stages combines primary archival research with the scholarly literature emerging from both the humanities and social sciences. The result is a comprehensive and empirical examination of the relationship between the theatrical arts and the urban spaces that house them.

Author : Kathleen Gallagher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442620599

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Why Theatre Matters by Kathleen Gallagher Pdf

What makes young people care about themselves, others, their communities, and their futures? In Why Theatre Matters, Kathleen Gallagher uses the drama classroom as a window into the daily challenges of marginalized youth in Toronto, Boston, Taipei, and Lucknow. An ethnographic study which mixes quantitative and qualitative methodology in an international multi-site project, Why Theatre Matters ties together the issues of urban and arts education through the lens of student engagement. Gallagher’s research presents a framework for understanding student involvement at school in the context of students’ families and communities, as well as changing social, political, and economic realities around the world. Taking the reader into the classroom through the voices of the students themselves, Gallagher illustrates how creative expression through theatre can act as a rehearsal space for real, material struggles and for democratic participation. Why Theatre Matters is an invigorating challenge to the myths that surround urban youth and an impressive study of theatre’s transformative potential.

Author : David Bellin Coplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124030805

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In Township Tonight! by David Bellin Coplan Pdf

David B. Coplan's pioneering social history of black South Africa's urban music, dance, and theatre established itself as a classic soon after its publication in 1985. Now completely revised, expanded, and updated, this new edition takes account of developments over the last thirty years while reflecting on the massive changes in South African politics and society since the end of the apartheid era. In vivid detail, Coplan comprehensively explores more than three centuries of the diverse history of South Africa's black popular culture, taking readers from indigenous musical traditions into the world of slave orchestras, pennywhistlers, clergyman-composers, the gumboot dances of mineworkers, and touring minstrelsy and vaudeville acts.

Author : Mary C. Henderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015060054924

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The City and the Theatre by Mary C. Henderson Pdf

Mary Henderson's definitive history of theatre in New York City spans over three centuries and relates the development of theatre to the social, political, economic, and cultural climate of the time.

Author : Jen Harvie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0230203272

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Theatre & the city by Jen Harvie Pdf

Author : Alexandra Halligey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000769739

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Participatory Theatre and the Urban Everyday in South Africa by Alexandra Halligey Pdf

This book explores theatre and performance as participatory research practices for exploring the everyday of the city. Taking an inner-city suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa as its central case study, the book considers how theatre and performance might be both useful practical tools in considering the everyday city, as well as conceptual lenses for understanding it. The author establishes an understanding of space as ever evolving and formed through the ongoing relationship between things, human and non-human, and considers how theatre and performance offer useful paradigms for learning about and working with city spaces. As ephemeral, embodied, material artistic practices, theatre and performance mirror the nature of everyday life. The book discusses theatre and performance games and placemaking processes as offering valuable ways of discovering daily acts of place-making and providing insights that more conventional research methods may not allow. Yet the book also considers how seeing daily city life as a kind of performance, a kind of theatre in its own right, helps to further understandings of city spaces as ever evolving through complex webs of relationships. This book will be of interest to academics, academic practitioners and post-graduate students in the fields of theatre and performance studies, urban studies and cultural geography.

Author : Nicolas Whybrow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137120069

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Performance and the Contemporary City by Nicolas Whybrow Pdf

Cities, with their rising populations and complex configurations, have become key symbols of a fast-changing modernity. This timely collection gathers together various urban writings from a range of relevant disciplines, including architecture, geography, sociology, visual art, ethnography and psychoanalysis. Its focus, however, is performance. Underscoring the importance of the field, it shows how performance functions as a dynamic, interdisciplinary mechanism which is central not only to understanding the multiplicity of urban living but also to the way the identities of cities are shaped. Gathering together key writings on the city and performance by authors ranging from Walter Benjamin to Tim Etchells to Carl Lavery, the reader can be navigated in any number of ways. Supported by extensive introductory material, it will be essential and evocative reading for anyone interested in making connections between performance and urban life.

Author : Felicia Hardison Londré
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780826265852

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The Enchanted Years of the Stage by Felicia Hardison Londré Pdf

"Drawing on the recollections of renowned theater critic David Austin Latchaw and on newspaper archives of the era, Londre chronicles the "first golden age" of Kansas City theater, from the opening of the Coates Opera House in 1870 through the gradual decline of touring productions after World War I"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Mariam Dossal
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0198064381

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Theatre of Conflict, City of Hope by Mariam Dossal Pdf

Strongly grounded in primary sources, this comprehensive volume traces the radical transformation of Bombay from an agrarian settlement in seventeenth century to a megalopolis in present times. It explores the land use patterns and urban planning of the city over a long time span.

Author : Stephen Poliakoff
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408159644

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My City by Stephen Poliakoff Pdf

Heralding a return to the stage for renowned dramatist Stephen Poliakoff, My City is a lyrical exploration of storytelling, interwoven personal and political histories, memory and the ties of the past. Beautifully atmospheric and infused with a sense of yearning nostalgia, the play presents a series of strange, seemingly coincidental encounters with others which evoke momentous trends in the city they live in and the shifts of society throughout history. Two former school friends are reunited with their erstwhile teacher, the glamorous, gracious Miss Lambert who is now engaged in nightly pilgrimages on foot across London as an antidote to her chronic insomnia. In the course of these nocturnal journeys, she witnesses a paradigmatic range of incidents reflecting today's society: the kindness and the violence, the glut of discarded rubbish and the sanctity of that which is carefully preserved, as well as the ghostly vestiges of the past. My City contains all the hallmarks of Poliakoff's best writing: high in style and sustained mood, the play tells stories of the past with melodic descriptions, cinematic scope and aesthetic preciseness.

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte,Jo Riley
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1587290634

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The Show and the Gaze of Theatre by Erika Fischer-Lichte,Jo Riley Pdf

Theatre, in some respects, resembles a market. Stories, rituals, ideas, perceptive modes, conversations, rules, techniques, behavior patterns, actions, language, and objects constantly circulate back and forth between theatre and the other cultural institutions that make up everyday life in the twentieth century. These exchanges, which challenge the established concept of theatre in a way that demands to be understood, form the core of Erika Fischer-Lichte's dynamic book. Each eclectic essay investigates the boundaries that separate theatre from other cultural domains. Every encounter between theatre and other art forms and institutions renegotiates and redefines these boundaries as part of an ongoing process. Drawing on a wealth of fascinating examples, both historical and contemporary, Fischer-Lichte reveals new perspectives in theatre research from quite a number of different approaches. Energetically and excitingly, she theorizes history, theorizes and historicizes performance analysis, and historicizes theory.

Author : Edwin Wilson,Alvin Goldfarb
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015051306853

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Living Theater by Edwin Wilson,Alvin Goldfarb Pdf

A history of theater, providing background information on each theatrical era from Ancient Greece through the late twentieth century, and discussing the activities and accomplishments of playwrights, performers, managers, architects, and designers.

Author : Marvin Carlson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780191648618

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Theatre: A Very Short Introduction by Marvin Carlson Pdf

From before history was recorded to the present day, theatre has been a major artistic form around the world. From puppetry to mimes and street theatre, this complex art has utilized all other art forms such as dance, literature, music, painting, sculpture, and architecture. Every aspect of human activity and human culture can be, and has been, incorporated into the creation of theatre. In this Very Short Introduction Marvin Carlson takes us through Ancient Greece and Rome, to Medieval Japan and Europe, to America and beyond, and looks at how the various forms of theatre have been interpreted and enjoyed. Exploring the role that theatre artists play — from the actor and director to the designer and puppet-master, as well as the audience — this is an engaging exploration of what theatre has meant, and still means, to people of all ages at all times. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Sarah Gorman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415990929

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The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players by Sarah Gorman Pdf

The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players uses a clear and accessible voice to situate Maxwell's work within the context of contemporary American culture and international theatre practice. Through a close reading of theatre productions and plays, the author identifies how Maxwell renders the conventions of both realist theatre and everyday American culture strange.