Theatre and National Identity

Re-Imagining Conceptions of Nation

Nadine Holdsworth (University of Warwick, UK)

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English

Routledge
14 October 2024

Performance art; Theatre Studies; Politics & government

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

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.

Edited by: Nadine Holdsworth (University of Warwick UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 444g
ISBN: 9781032925615
ISBN 10: 1032925612
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 14 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nadine Holdsworth is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick. She has published widely on modern and contemporary theatre including Joan Littlewood's Theatre (2011), Theatre & Nation (2010) and co-edited (with Mary Luckhurst) A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama (2008).