Staging Place by Una Chaudhuri
Reimagines the content and continuities of theatre history and exposes underlying dialogues between home and homelessness, belonging and exile - a century-long struggle with the meaning and power of place, which the author terms geopathology.-
Space in Performance
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Approaching the Millennium
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Critical Theory and Performance
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David Mamet in Conversation
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Tom Stoppard in Conversation
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Arthur Miller's America
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Feeling Yellow
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Agitated States
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Performance Constellations
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The Purpose of Playing
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Democracy Moving
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Sails of the Herring Fleet
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No Safe Spaces
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Directing Beckett
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Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis
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Acting the Part
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Fantasies of Ito Michio
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Simming
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Alienation Effects
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Scenes from Bourgeois Life
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Acting as Reading
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Not the Other Avant-Garde
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Embodying Black Experience
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Brian Friel in Conversation
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After Live
This is a book of real originalityIts treatment of space in modern drama is elegant and powerful. . . ." —William B. Worthen, Northwestern University
"Staging Place is a powerfully written book, deft in its handling of familiar and unfamiliar plays alike and eclectic in its use of theatrical sources." —Essays in Theatre/ Études théâtrales
"This sophisticated and well-written study for graduate students and their teachers explores modern drama's preoccupation with the seemingly irreconcilable discontinuities between the notions of home and homelessness, belonging and exile. . . . The readings of individual plays are fresh and invigorating. . . ." —Choice
"Staging Place is a powerfully written book, deft in its handling of familiar and unfamiliar plays alike and eclectic in its use of theatrical sources." —Essays in Theatre/ Études théâtrales
"This sophisticated and well-written study for graduate students and their teachers explores modern drama's preoccupation with the seemingly irreconcilable discontinuities between the notions of home and homelessness, belonging and exile. . . . The readings of individual plays are fresh and invigorating. . . ." —Choice
Una Chaudhuri is Associate Professor of English, New York University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780472065899 |
| ISBN 10 | 0472065890 |
| Title | Staging Place |
| Author | Una Chaudhuri |
| Series | Theater: Theory Text Performance |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Michigan Press |
| Year published | 1997-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |