In World Stages, Dickinson suggests 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… Read More
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- Title World Stages, Local Audiences: Essays on Performance, Place and Politics
- Author Peter Dickinson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Date 2010
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780719081743 / 0719081742
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.6 x 5.5 x 1 in (21.84 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Performing arts - Audiences, Performing arts - Social aspects
- Dewey Decimal Code 790.2
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