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Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? This book, now in paperback, queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma.
Social Science / Gender Studies
Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism
Science / Environmental Science
About this Author
D.J. HOPKINS is Head of Theatre Studies in the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University, USA. He is the author ofCity/Stage/Globe: Performance and Space in Shakespeare's London.
SHELLEY ORR teaches in the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University, USA. She heads the dramaturgy area at SDSU and is past president of the international association Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA).
KIM SOLGA is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She is the author ofViolence Against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
SHELLEY ORR teaches in the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University, USA. She heads the dramaturgy area at SDSU and is past president of the international association Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA).
KIM SOLGA is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She is the author ofViolence Against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Reviews
"The publication thus opens up a relevant perspective for theatre and performance studies as well as allied fields. It emerges at a time when the city, and performance in the city, offer particularly charged experiences."--Theatre Research International, Stuart Andrews, University of Surrey, UK
"Few works balance the theoretical charge of their arguments with such powerful contempoary examples. Given that the emphasis is on the performative aspects of violence, the editors do a terrifc work of examining not merely the staged (which assumes social and political actors) but also the spectacular (that which assumes rapid dissemination and disruption of the social) dimensions of public violence."-- Aishwary Kumar, Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian History, Stanford University,USA
"...high quality, engaging - and moving - explorations of the relationship between spectators, performers and spaces, written by the best scholars in the field both established and emerging."-- Stephen Johnson, Director, Graduate Centre for Drama, University of Toronto, Canada
"the collection's potential market extends beyond that for traditional theatre and performance studies; each essay intervenes in larger conversations regarding globalization and urban capital production."-- Jean Graham-Jones, Professor, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, USA
"Few works balance the theoretical charge of their arguments with such powerful contempoary examples. Given that the emphasis is on the performative aspects of violence, the editors do a terrifc work of examining not merely the staged (which assumes social and political actors) but also the spectacular (that which assumes rapid dissemination and disruption of the social) dimensions of public violence."-- Aishwary Kumar, Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian History, Stanford University,USA
"...high quality, engaging - and moving - explorations of the relationship between spectators, performers and spaces, written by the best scholars in the field both established and emerging."-- Stephen Johnson, Director, Graduate Centre for Drama, University of Toronto, Canada
"the collection's potential market extends beyond that for traditional theatre and performance studies; each essay intervenes in larger conversations regarding globalization and urban capital production."-- Jean Graham-Jones, Professor, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, USA
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