Theatre and The Rural

by Jo Robinson

Overview

How has theatre represented the rural? And how does a re-viewing of theatre of and in the rural help to build and complicate our sense of place?

Theatre&the Rural explores the different ways in which theatre has performed the rural from the medieval to the contemporary, and examines the changing relationships between place, performance and audience when theatre is staged in rural communities. The book argues that theatre has a key role to play in both producing and potentially changing understandings of the rural, challenging dominant views of the relationships between city and country which can affect the political, social and cultural lives of the nation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350316126
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	06/29/2016
Series:	Theatre And
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	104
File size:	700 KB

About the Author

Jo Robinson is Associate Professor in Drama and Performance at the University of Nottingham, UK. She was awarded the Lord Dearing Teaching Award in July 2010. Jo's broad research interests focus on the relationships between performance, place, community and region from the nineteenth-century onwards
Jo Robinson is Professor of Theatre and Performance at Newcastle University, UK, and a former convenor of the IFTR Historiography Working Group and of the TaPRA History and Historiography Working Group. She led the AHRC project, 'Mapping the Moment: Performance Culture in Nottingham 1857–1867', outputs from which were published in Performance Research, Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film and the International Journal of Humanities and Computing. Her publications include Theatre&the Rural (2016) and, with Claire Cochrane, the edited collection Theatre History and Historiography: Ethics, Evidence and Truth (2016).

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface
 Foreword
 1. Introduction
 2. Defining the Rural
 3. Performing the Rural
 4. The Rural as a Site for Performance
 5. Conclusion
 Further Reading
 Index.