Theory for Theatre Studies: Space

Kim Solga, Susan Bennett, Kim Solga, Susan Bennett, Kim Solga

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781350006065
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350006089
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism in Drama

Space: it's everywhere, all around, a given. It's abstract and yet not abstract at all, because it governs all human relations, shapes the way we understand our place on the planet, and orients us toward others (for better and for worse). How do theatre scholars understand space and place in performance? What tools do they use to theorize the political work space does on – and beyond – the stage? How can students use these tools to unpack the workings of space and place in the performances they see, the plays they study, and the experiences they have outside their classrooms?

Theory for Theatre Studies: Space provides a comprehensive introduction to the 'spatial turn' in modern theatre and performance theory, exploring topics as diverse as embodied space, environmental performance politics and urban performance studies. The book is written in accessible prose and features in-depth case studies of Platform's audio walk And While London Burns, Katie Mitchell's Fraülein Julie, Young Jean Lee's The Shipment, and Evalyn Parry and Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory's Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools. TfTS: Space begins with fresh readings of historical dramatic theory, discusses twentieth-century theoretical trends at length, and ends by asking what it will take (and what work is already underway) to decolonize the Western, settler-colonial stage.

Online resources to accompany this book are available at:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/theory-for-theatre-studies-space-9781350006072/

INDEX

Académie Française here, here

acting theory here

actor-object relations here

Ahmed, Sara here

alternate ordering. See heterotopia

Ancient Greece here, here, here, here–here

Dionysis and Ikarion Theatres here–here

Anishinaabe here, here

Antoine, André here

Aristotle here–here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here

Poetics here–here, here, here

spectacle here–here, here, here, here, here

“taking place” here–here, here, here

tragic theory here

Aronson, Arnold here, here, here, here, here, here

Arts Council of England here, here, here

Ashkenazi here

Attawandaron here

audio walk here, here–here, here–here, here–here, here

Austin, J.L. here, here

Australia here, here, here, here

Bachelard, Gaston here, here, here

Balme, Christopher B. here, here–here

Barbour, Jordan here

Barker, Adam J. here

Barker, Roberta here

Bathory, Laakkuluk Williamson

Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools here, here–here, here–here

Evalyn here–here, here

Laakkuluk here–here

Bayreuth (Germany) here, here

Beagan, Tara here

Bean, Annemarie here

Beckett, Samuel here, here

believability here–here

belonging here, here, here

Benedetti, Jean here

Benjamin, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents 
• Acknowledgments
• Series Preface
• Introduction: Making Room for Space at the Theatre
• Section One: Methodologies and Approaches
• Section Two: Extended Case Studies
• Section Three: Towards a Decolonized Stage
• Notes
• References
• Further Reading
• Index
• Imprint