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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This exploration of theatre and the rural argues that the reality of the lived rural is overlaid with external representations, often coloured by nostalgia, which are reflected and potentially created by theatre and its practices. It suggests that we need to re-engage with the actuality of the rural in order to fully understand our own nations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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. ...
