Stuart Andrews, Matthew Wagner

The Dramaturgy of the Door

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the door as a critical but under-explored feature of theatre and performance, asking how doors function on stage, in site-specific practice and in performances of place. Aimed at performance makers and artists as well as advanced students and scholars in the fields of performance studies, cultural theory, and visual arts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781138684652
• ISBN-10: 1138684651
• Artikelnr.: 57940964

Autorenporträt

Stuart Andrews is a writer, researcher, and Co-Director of Performing City Resilience. Matthew Wagner is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of Surrey.

Inhaltsangabe

Openings: doors remembered
1 The dramaturgy of the door
2 At home with doors: practising architectural elements
3 "This is the door": threshold phenomena in Shakespearean dramaturgy
4 Bodies at doors, bodies with doors
5 Together at doors: situating spectators in the city
6 The Janus effect: doors and theatrical time
Closings: doors reflected