Theatrical Nation
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Staging Nation
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Author : Jacqueline Lo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Staging Nation written by Jacqueline Lo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Drama categories.
Staging Nation examines the complex relationship between the theatrical stage and the wider stage of nation building in postcolonial Malaysia and Singapore. In less than fifty years, locally written and produced English language theater has managed to shrug off its colonial shackles to become an important site of community expression. This groundbreaking comparative study discusses the role of creative writing and the act of performance as actual political acts and as interventions in national self-constructions. It argues that certain forms of theater can be read as emerging oppositional cultures that contribute towards the deepening of democracy by offering contending narratives of the nation.
Theatre And Nation
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Author : Nadine Holdsworth
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2010-06-30
Theatre And Nation written by Nadine Holdsworth and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-30 with Performing Arts categories.
How has theatre engaged with the nation-state and helped to formulate national identities? What impact have migration and globalisation had on the relationship between theatre and nation? Theatre & Nation explores how theatre institutions, playwrights, theatre-makers and performance artists engage with the nation, nationalism and national identity in their work. The book argues that theatrical representations of the nation are constantly in flux and that the way theatre engages with the nation changes according to different geographical, political, economic, social and cultural circumstances. Foreword by Nicholas Hytner.
Theatre Society And The Nation
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Author : S. E. Wilmer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-09-23
Theatre Society And The Nation written by S. E. Wilmer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-23 with Drama categories.
Theatre has often served as a touchstone for moments of political change or national definition and as a way of exploring cultural and ethnic identity. In this book Steve Wilmer selects key historical moments in American history and examines how the theatre, in formal and informal settings, responded to these events. The book moves from the Colonial fight for independence, through Native American struggles, the Socialist Worker play, the Civil Rights Movement, and up to works of the last decade, including Tony Kushner's Angels in America. In addition to examining theatrical events and play texts, Wilmer also considers audience reception and critical response.
Theatre And Nation
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Author : Nadine Holdsworth
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2010-06-30
Theatre And Nation written by Nadine Holdsworth and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-30 with Performing Arts categories.
How has theatre engaged with the nation-state and helped to formulate national identities? What impact have migration and globalisation had on the relationship between theatre and nation? Theatre & Nation explores how theatre institutions, playwrights, theatre-makers and performance artists engage with the nation, nationalism and national identity in their work. The book argues that theatrical representations of the nation are constantly in flux and that the way theatre engages with the nation changes according to different geographical, political, economic, social and cultural circumstances. Foreword by Nicholas Hytner.
Theatre And National Identity
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Author : Nadine Holdsworth
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-27
Theatre And National Identity written by Nadine Holdsworth and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-27 with Performing Arts categories.
This book explores the ways that pre-existing ‘national’ works or ‘national theatre’ sites can offer a rich source of material for speaking to the contemporary moment because of the resonances or associations they offer of a different time, place, politics, or culture. Featuring a broad international scope, it offers a series of thought-provoking essays that explore how playwrights, directors, theatre-makers, and performance artists have re-staged or re-worked a classic national play, performance, theatrical form, or theatre space in order to engage with conceptions of and questions around the nation, nationalism, and national identity in the contemporary moment, opening up new ways of thinking about or problematizing questions around the nation and national identity. Chapters ask how productions engage with a particular moment in the national psyche in the context of internationalism and globalization, for example, as well as how productions explore the interconnectivity of nations, intercultural agendas, or cosmopolitanism. They also explore questions relating to the presence of migrants, exiles, or refugees, and the legacy of colonial histories and post-colonial subjectivities. The volume highlights how theatre and performance has the ability to contest and unsettle ideas of the nation and national identity through the use of various sites, stagings, and performance strategies, and how contemporary theatres have portrayed national agendas and characters at a time of intense cultural flux and repositioning.
Theater And Nation In Eighteenth Century Germany
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Author : Michael J. Sosulski
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Theater And Nation In Eighteenth Century Germany written by Michael J. Sosulski and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
In 1767, more than a century before Germany was incorporated as a modern nation-state, the city of Hamburg chartered the first Deutsches Nationaltheater. What can it have meant for a German playhouse to have been a national theater, and what did that imply about the way these theaters operated? Michael Sosulski contends that the idea of German nationhood not only existed prior to the Napoleonic Wars but was decisive in shaping cultural production in the last third of the eighteenth century, operating not on the level of popular consciousness but instead within representational practices and institutions. Grounding his study in a Foucauldian understanding of emergent technologies of the self, Sosulski connects the increasing performance of body discipline by professional actors, soldiers, and schoolchildren to the growing interest in German national identity. The idea of a German cultural nation gradually emerged as a conceptual force through the work of an influential series of literary intellectuals and advocates of a national theater, including G. E. Lessing and Friedrich Schiller. Sosulski combines fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known dramas, with analysis of eighteenth-century theories of nationhood and evolving acting theories, to show that the very lack of a strong national consciousness in the late eighteenth century actually spurred the emergence of the German Nationaltheater, which were conceived in the spirit of the Enlightenment as educational institutions. Since for Germans, nationality was a performed identity, theater emerged as an ideal space in which to imagine that nation.
Theatre And National Identity
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Author : Nadine Holdsworth
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-27
Theatre And National Identity written by Nadine Holdsworth and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-27 with Performing Arts categories.
This book explores the ways that pre-existing ‘national’ works or ‘national theatre’ sites can offer a rich source of material for speaking to the contemporary moment because of the resonances or associations they offer of a different time, place, politics, or culture. Featuring a broad international scope, it offers a series of thought-provoking essays that explore how playwrights, directors, theatre-makers, and performance artists have re-staged or re-worked a classic national play, performance, theatrical form, or theatre space in order to engage with conceptions of and questions around the nation, nationalism, and national identity in the contemporary moment, opening up new ways of thinking about or problematizing questions around the nation and national identity. Chapters ask how productions engage with a particular moment in the national psyche in the context of internationalism and globalization, for example, as well as how productions explore the interconnectivity of nations, intercultural agendas, or cosmopolitanism. They also explore questions relating to the presence of migrants, exiles, or refugees, and the legacy of colonial histories and post-colonial subjectivities. The volume highlights how theatre and performance has the ability to contest and unsettle ideas of the nation and national identity through the use of various sites, stagings, and performance strategies, and how contemporary theatres have portrayed national agendas and characters at a time of intense cultural flux and repositioning.
Stage For A Nation
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Author : Douglas Bennett Lee
language : en
Publisher: Lanham, MD : University Press of America
Release Date : 1985
Stage For A Nation written by Douglas Bennett Lee and has been published by Lanham, MD : University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Drama categories.
For 150 years, the National Theatre has entertained theatregoers in the nation's capital with a rich assortment of dramatic and musical fare. The theatre's robust life has mirrored the capital's own growth and development, becoming over the course of a century and a half one of America's premier theatrical treasures. This book, the National Theatre's official commemorative 150th Anniversary volume, intimately reveals both the public and private lives of this great institution. Beautifully illustrated with almost 200 rare full color and black and white photographs from the Theatre's archives, this handsome book chronicles the history of the National from its earliest days to the present.
One Nation
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Author : One Nation (Theater group)
language : en
Publisher:
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One Nation written by One Nation (Theater group) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The National Stage
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Author : Loren Kruger
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1992-08
The National Stage written by Loren Kruger and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-08 with Drama categories.
The idea of staging a nation dates from the Enlightenment, but the full force of the idea emerges only with the rise of mass politics. Comparing English, French, and American attempts to establish national theatres at moments of political crisis—from the challenge of socialism in late nineteenth-century Europe to the struggle to "salvage democracy" in Depression America—Kruger poses a fundamental question: in the formation of nationhood, is the citizen-audience spectator or participant? The National Stage answers this question by tracing the relation between theatre institution and public sphere in the discourses of national identity in Britain, France, and the United States. Exploring the boundaries between history and theory, text and performance, this book speaks to theatre and social historians as well as those interested in the theoretical range of cultural studies.