David Calder

Street theatre and the production of postindustrial space (eBook, ePUB)

Working memories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Deindustrialising communities have called upon street theatre companies to re-animate public space and commemorate industrial heritage. How have these companies converted derelict factories into spaces of theatrical production? How do they connect their work to the industrial work that once occurred there? How do those connections manifest in theatrical events, and how do such events give shape and meaning to ongoing redevelopment projects? This book develops an understanding of the relationship between theatre and redevelopment that goes beyond accusations of gentrification or celebrations of radical resistance. Ultimately, Calder argues that deindustrialisation and redevelopment depend on theatrical events and performative acts to make ongoing change intelligible and navigable. Working memories brings together some of current theatre scholarship's fundamental concerns while demonstrating the significance of those concerns to an interdisciplinary readership.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526121615
• Artikelnr.: 57471395

Autorenporträt

David Calder is Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Working memory 1. Theatre in ruins: street and theatre at the
end of Fordism 2. Reincorporation: putting the countryside back to work 3.
Excavation: the imaginary archaeology of redevelopment 4. Resurfacing:
continuous theatre for a creative city 5. Recuperation: alternate pasts,
sustainable futures Notes References Index