On the Performance Front - US Theatre and Internationalism

This book argues that US theatre in the 20th century embraced the theories and practices of internationalism as a way to realize a better world and as part of the strategic reform of the theatre into a national expression. Live performance, theatre internationalists argued, could represent and reflect the nation like no other endeavour.

List of contents

Introduction.- 1. Theatre Arts.- 2. On Stage I: The Wedding Proposal, 1927.- 3. The US (Inter)National Theatre.- 4. On Stage II: Hamlet, 1949.- 5. Tomorrow's Theatre Today.- 6. On Stage III: Porgy and Bess, 1952-1956.- Conclusion.- Index.-

About the author

Charlotte M. Canning is the Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor in Drama in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is the author of Feminist Theaters In The USA: Staging Women's Experience (1995) and The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance (2005). She co-edited, with Thomas Postlewait, Representing the Past: Essays in Performance Historiography (2010).

Summary

This book argues that US theatre in the 20th century embraced the theories and practices of internationalism as a way to realize a better world and as part of the strategic reform of the theatre into a national expression. Live performance, theatre internationalists argued, could represent and reflect the nation like no other endeavour.

Product details

• Authors: C Canning, C. Canning, Charlotte M Canning
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2020
• EAN: 9781349588909
• ISBN: 978-1-349-58890-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 18 mm x 217 mm
• Weight: 419 g
• Illustrations: XV, 312 p.
• Series: Studies in International Performance; Studies in International Perfo; Studies in International Perfo; Studies in International Performance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Theater, B, Performing Arts, The arts: general issues, Arts, Theatre Studies, Theatre and Performance Arts, Theater—History, Theatre History, Palgrave Theatre & Performance Collection, Theatre and Performance Studies