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Theory for Theatre Studies: Space

Kim Solga (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2019
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-350-00606-5 (ISBN)

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Space: it’s everywhere, all around, a given. It’s abstract and yet not abstract at all, because it governs all human relations, shapes the way we understand our place on the planet, and orients us toward others (for better and for worse). How do theatre scholars understand space and place in performance? What tools do they use to theorize the political work space does on – and beyond – the stage? How can students use these tools to unpack the workings of space and place in the performances they see, the plays they study, and the experiences they have outside their classrooms?

Theory for Theatre Studies: Space provides a comprehensive introduction to the ‘spatial turn’ in modern theatre and performance theory, exploring topics as diverse as embodied space, environmental performance politics and urban performance studies. The book is written in accessible prose and features in-depth case studies of Platform’s audio walk And While London Burns, Katie Mitchell’s Fraülein Julie, Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment, and Evalyn Parry and Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory’s Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools. TfTS: Space begins with fresh readings of historical dramatic theory, discusses twentieth-century theoretical trends at length, and ends by asking what it will take (and what work is already underway) to decolonize the Western, settler-colonial stage.

Online resources to accompany this book are available at:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/theory-for-theatre-studies-space-9781350006072/

Kim Solga is Professor of Theatre Studies and English and Writing Studies at Western University, Canada. Her books include A Cultural History of Theatre in The Modern Age (Methuen Drama, 2017), Theatre & Feminism (2015), Performance and the City (2009) and Performance and the Global City (2013), which together won the 2016 ATHE prize for Excellence in Editing, and Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance (2009). She writes the teaching blog The Activist Classroom, available from Wordpress.

Acknowledgements

Series Preface

Introduction: Making Room for Space at the Theatre

Locate Yourself
The Way Ahead

Section One: Methodologies and Approaches

The Back Story: The Spaces of Classical Dramatic Theory
Contemporary Lens #1:
Theatre and the Production of Social Space
Contemporary Lens #2:
Genre and “Topographic” Space
Contemporary Lens #3:
The Heterotopic Stage

Section Two: Extended Case Studies

Case Study #1: ‘And While London Burns’
Case Study #2: ‘Fräulein Julie’
Case Study #3: ‘The Shipment’

Section Three: Towards a Decolonized Stage

Locating Settler Colonialism
Seeing Like a Settler
“A Concert and a Conversation”: ‘Kiinalik – These Sharp Tools’

Notes

Further reading

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.01.2019
Reihe/Serie	Theory for Theatre Studies
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Susan Bennett, Kim Solga
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	180 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-350-00606-8 / 1350006068
ISBN-13	978-1-350-00606-5 / 9781350006065
Zustand	Neuware