Joanne Tompkins, Julie Holledge, Jonathan Bollen, Liyang Xia

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Visualising Lost Theatres (eBook, PDF)

Virtual Praxis and the Recovery of Performance Spaces

Beschreibung

This pioneering study harnesses virtual reality to uncover the history of five venues that have been ''lost'' to us: London''s 1590s Rose Theatre; Bergen''s mid-nineteenth-century Komediehuset; Adelaide''s Queen''s Theatre of 1841; circus tents hosting Cantonese opera performances in Australia''s goldfields in the 1850s; and the Stardust showroom in 1950s Las Vegas. Shaping some of the most enduring genres of world theatre and cultural production, each venue marks a significant cultural transformation, charted here through detailed discussion of theatrical praxis and socio-political history. Using virtual models as performance laboratories for research, Visualising Lost Theatres recreates the immersive feel of venues and reveals performance logistics for actors and audiences. Proposing a new methodology for using visualisations as a tool in theatre history, and providing 3D visualisations for the reader to consult alongside the text, this is a landmark contribution to the digital humanities.

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Autor

Joanne Tompkins is Professor Emerita at the University of Queensland, Australia. She has published widely in theatre studies, especially on spatiality and theatre, and on cultural politics in theatre. She has won awards for her research and her editing, and the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies offers an editing award named in her honour. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Queen Mary, University of London in 2015 and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. She founded Ortelia, a company which provides virtual reality models of examples of cultural heritage, and she is a co-founder of AusStage (with Julie Holledge).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108755863
• Artikelnr.: 70908230