
On the Performance Front
US Theatre and Internationalism
C. Canning(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 29. January 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
XV, 312 pages
978-1-349-58890-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book argues that US theatre in the 20th century embraced the theories and practices of internationalism as a way to realize a better world and as part of the strategic reform of the theatre into a national expression. Live performance, theatre internationalists argued, could represent and reflect the nation like no other endeavour.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
XV, 312 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-58890-9 (9781349588909)
DOI
10.1057/9781137543301
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06/2015
1st Edition
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
Charlotte M. Canning is the Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor in Drama in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is the author of Feminist Theaters In The USA: Staging Women's Experience (1995) and The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance (2005). She co-edited, with Thomas Postlewait, Representing the Past: Essays in Performance Historiography (2010).
Content
Introduction.- 1. Theatre Arts.- 2. On Stage I: The Wedding Proposal, 1927.- 3. The US (Inter)National Theatre.- 4. On Stage II: Hamlet, 1949.- 5. Tomorrow's Theatre Today.- 6. On Stage III: Porgy and Bess, 1952-1956.- Conclusion.- Index.-