World Stages, Local Audiences by Peter Dickinson
World Stages, local audiences argues that the forms of intimacy and identification that come from being part of the public of a local performance, provide a potential model for rethinking our roles as world citizens. Using his own experience of recent theatrical practice in Vancouver as a starting point, Dickinson maps the spaces of connection and contestation, the flows of sentiment and social responsibility, produced by different communities in response to global sports spectacles. He also analyses how such topics are taken up in the work of playwrights, conceptual, installation, and performance artists like Ai Weiwei, and Rebecca Belmore. In so doing, Dickinson makes an original contribution to the emerging discourse on live art and 'livability' by examining not only the geographical and historical affiliations between different sites of performance, but also the - at times - radical new social bonds created by audiences witness to those performances.-
‘Love me or kill me’
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Queer Exceptions
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Foucault’s theatres
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Not magic but work
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Theatre in crisis?
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South African Performance and Archives of Memory
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Beautiful doom
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The Paris Jigsaw
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Performing the testimonial
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Unlimited action
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Trans-global readings
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The politics of Jean Genet's late theatre
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Theatre, Activism, Subjectivity
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Directing Scenes and Senses
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Negotiating cultures
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Performing Presence
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Robert Lepage's original stage productions
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Witness Onstage
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Ibsen, Theatre and the Chinese State
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Science in Performance
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Death in Modern Theatre
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After '89
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Performance in a Time of Terror
Wide in scope and roving in style, World Stages, Local Audiences offers readers a rich investigation of the complex and shifting relationships among performance, place, and audience.. [The book] ... outlines an ambitious project that ultimately raises important philosophical questions about the situatedness of meaning, opening up new avenues for future research and discussion
a divertingly diverse monograph....its four chapters present analyses of a select set of performative/ performance examples that attempt to cross the high wire between "think global" and "act local". For a project of elevated ambitions, this discursive amplitude ... take[s] focused daring to especially encompassing heights
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780719081743 |
| ISBN 10 | 0719081742 |
| Title | World Stages, Local Audiences |
| Author | Peter Dickinson |
| Series | Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2010-05-12 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |