Theatre's Heterotopias: Performance and the Cultural Politics of Space

by J. Tompkins

Overview

Theatre's Heterotopias analyses performance space, using the concept of heterotopia: a location that, when apparent in performance, refers to the actual world, thus activating performance in its culture. Case studies cover site-specific and multimedia performance, and selected productions from the National Theatre of Scotland and the Globe Theatre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349472543
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Series:	Contemporary Performance InterActions
Edition description:	1st ed. 2014
Pages:	231
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joanne Tompkins teaches Drama at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is author or co-author of Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre (2007); Women's Intercultural Performance; Post-Colonial Drama (2000); and co-editor of Performing Site-Specific Theatre: Politics, Place, Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Her research addresses spatiality, the digital humanities, and theatre's engagement with cultural politics.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Theatre, Space and World-making 1. Theatre and the Construction of Alternate Spaces 2. Heterotopia and Site-Specificity 3. Heterotopia, the National Theatre of Scotland, and 'Theatre without Walls' 4. Re-establishing Heterotopic Relationships at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre 5. Heterotopia and Multimedia Conclusion: Gaps, Absences, and Alternate Orderings Bibliography Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

'Theatre's Heterotopias offers the most rigorous and nuanced examination of heterotopia in performance to date. Joanne Tompkins systematically attends to the complex spatiality of theatre and is sensitive to the ambivalences and ambiguities that theatrical heterotopias entail. Where theatre and performance studies has taken heterotopia too much for granted, Theatre's Heterotopias takes it seriously.' - Michael McKinnie, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Editorial Reviews

Theatre’s Heterotopias is a rigorous and disciplined study of a high scholarly standard, but it is also intelligent and flexible in its approach, combining extended intellectual work with rich experiential material. … book is an important and original, erudite but graceful contribution to theatre studies and all those variously involved in the theory and practice of the field, but it can also be used productively in other domains of spatial development and construction beyond the boundaries of theatre and performance.” (Elizabeth Sakellaridou, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 4 (2), November, 2016)

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