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Theatre's Heterotopias: Performance and the Cultural Politics of Space (Contemporary Performance Interactions)
Joanne Tompkins
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Description for Theatre's Heterotopias: Performance and the Cultural Politics of Space (Contemporary Performance Interactions)
Hardcover. Theatre's Heterotopias analyses performance space, using the concept of heterotopia: a location that, when apparent in performance, refers to the actual world, thus activating performance in its culture. Case studies cover site-specific and multimedia performance, and selected productions from the National Theatre of Scotland and the Globe Theatre. Series: Contemporary Performance Interactions. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Theatre's Heterotopias analyses performance space, using the concept of heterotopia: a location that, when apparent in performance, refers to the actual world, thus activating performance in its culture. Case studies cover site-specific and multimedia performance, and selected productions from the National Theatre of Scotland and the Globe Theatre.
Theatre's Heterotopias analyses performance space, using the concept of heterotopia: a location that, when apparent in performance, refers to the actual world, thus activating performance in its culture. Case studies cover site-specific and multimedia performance, and selected productions from the National Theatre of Scotland and the Globe Theatre.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Performance Interactions
Number of Pages
231
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137362117
SKU
V9781137362117
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Ref
99-15
About Joanne Tompkins
Joanne Tompkins teaches Drama at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is author or co-author of Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre (2007); Women's Intercultural Performance; Post-Colonial Drama (2000); and co-editor of Performing Site-Specific Theatre: Politics, Place, Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Her research addresses spatiality, the digital humanities, and theatre's engagement with cultural politics.
Reviews for Theatre's Heterotopias: Performance and the Cultural Politics of Space (Contemporary Performance Interactions)
“Theatre’s Heterotopias is a rigorous and disciplined study of a high scholarly standard, but it is also intelligent and flexible in its approach, combining extended intellectual work with rich experiential material. … book is an important and original, erudite but graceful contribution to theatre studies and all those variously involved in the theory and practice of the field, but it ... Read more