Theatre Symposium, Volume 25

Cross-Cultural Dialogue on the Global Stage

Buch | Softcover

112 Seiten

2017
The University of Alabama Press (Verlag)
978-0-8173-7012-1 (ISBN)

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Addresses the ways that theatre both shapes cross-cultural dialogue and is itself, in turn, shaped by those forces. Globalization may strike many as a phenomenon of our own historical moment, but it is truly as old as civilization: we need only look to the ancient Silk Road linking the Far East to the Mediterranean in order to find some of the earliest recorded impacts of people and goods crossing borders. Yet, in the current cultural moment, tensions are high due to increased migration, economic unpredictability, complicated acts of local and global terror, and heightened political divisions all over the world. Thus globalization seems new and a threat to our ways of life, to our nations, and to our cultures. In what ways have theatre practitioners, educators, and scholars worked to support cross-cultural dialogue historically? And in what ways might theatre embrace the complexities and contradictions inherent in any meaningful exchange? The essays in Theatre Symposium, Volume 25 reflect on these questions. Featured in Theatre Symposium, Volume 25: ï¿½Theatre as Cultural Exchange: Stages and Studios of Learningï¿½ by Anita Gonzalez ï¿½Certain Kinds of Dances Used among Them: An Initial Inquiry into Colonial Spanish Encounters with the Areytos of the Taíno in Puerto Ricoï¿½ by E. Bert Wallace ï¿½Gertrude Hoffmann's Lawful Piracy: â€˜A Vision of Salome' and the Russian Season as Transatlantic Production Impersonationsï¿½ by Sunny Stalter-Pace ï¿½Greasing the Global: Princess Lotus Blossom and the Fabrication of the â€˜Orient' to Pitch Products in the American Medicine Showï¿½ by Chase Bringardner ï¿½Dismembering Tennessee Williams: The Global Context of Lee Breuer's A Streetcar Named Desireï¿½ by Daniel Ciba ï¿½Transformative Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Prague: Americans Creating Czech History Playsï¿½ by Karen Berman ï¿½Finding Common Ground: Lessac Training across Culturesï¿½ by Erica Tobolski and Deborah A. Kinghorn

Becky K. Becker is a professor of theatre at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia, Interim Director for the Center for International Education, and coordinator for the international studies certificate. Her published work has been featured in Feminist Teacher, Theatre Symposium, and Shakespeare Beyond English.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.11.2017
Zusatzinfo	4 black & white figures
Verlagsort	Alabama
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	200 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10	0-8173-7012-9 / 0817370129
ISBN-13	978-0-8173-7012-1 / 9780817370121
Zustand	Neuware