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Theatre and The Rural
Jo Robinson
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Description for Theatre and The Rural
Paperback. This exploration of theatre and the rural argues that the reality of the lived rural is overlaid with external representations, often coloured by nostalgia, which are reflected and potentially created by theatre and its practices. It suggests that we need to re-engage with the actuality of the rural in order to fully understand our own nations. Series: Theatre and. Num Pages: 104 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 181 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 82.
How has theatre represented the rural? And how does a re-viewing of theatre of and in the rural help to build and complicate our sense of place? Theatre & the Rural explores the different ways in which theatre has performed the rural from the medieval to the contemporary, and examines the changing relationships between place, performance and audience when theatre is staged in rural communities. The book argues that theatre has a key role to play in both producing and potentially changing understandings of the rural, challenging dominant views of the relationships between city and country which ... Read more
How has theatre represented the rural? And how does a re-viewing of theatre of and in the rural help to build and complicate our sense of place? Theatre & the Rural explores the different ways in which theatre has performed the rural from the medieval to the contemporary, and examines the changing relationships between place, performance and audience when theatre is staged in rural communities. The book argues that theatre has a key role to play in both producing and potentially changing understandings of the rural, challenging dominant views of the relationships between city and country which ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Macmillan Education UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Theatre and
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137471932
SKU
V9781137471932
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Ref
99-99
About Jo Robinson
Jo Robinson is Associate Professor in Drama and Performance at the University of Nottingham, UK. She was awarded the Lord Dearing Teaching Award in July 2010. Jo's broad research interests focus on the relationships between performance, place, community and region from the nineteenth-century onwards
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