World Stages, Local Audiences

Essays on Performance, Place and Politics

Peter Dickinson, Peter Dickinson, Maggie B. Gale , Peter Lichtenfels

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Manchester University Press
12 May 2010

Theatre Studies

Series: Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance

World Stages, local audiences argues that the forms of intimacy and identification that come from being part of the public of a local performance, provide a potential model for rethinking our roles as world citizens. Using his own experience of recent theatrical practice in Vancouver as a starting point, Dickinson maps the spaces of connection and contestation, the flows of sentiment and social responsibility, produced by different communities in response to global sports spectacles. He also analyses how such topics are taken up in the work of playwrights, conceptual, installation, and performance artists like Ai Weiwei, and Rebecca Belmore. In so doing, Dickinson makes an original contribution to the emerging discourse on live art and 'livability' by examining not only the geographical and historical affiliations between different sites of performance, but also the - at times - radical new social bonds created by audiences witness to those performances. -- .

By: Peter Dickinson, Peter Dickinson
Series edited by: Maggie B. Gale, Peter Lichtenfels
Other: Rebecca Mortimer
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 467g
ISBN: 9780719081743
ISBN 10: 0719081742
Series: Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 12 May 2010
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Near and far 1 One world, two cities: Olympic showcases in Beijing and Vancouver 2 Love is a battlefield: the performance and politics of same-sex marriage in North America and beyond 3 Travels with Tony Kushner and David Beckham 4 Brothers’ keepers, or, the performance of mourning: queer rituals of remembrance Coda 1 December 2007: changing direction/Lost Action References -- .

Peter Dickinson teaches in the English Department at Simon Fraser University

Reviews for World Stages, Local Audiences: Essays on Performance, Place and Politics

It examines local performances that provide straightforward perspectives on the complex politics of global concerns. Summing up: Recommended. -- CHOICE <br>