Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company

Co-authored by the resident dramaturg and a long-time scholarly consultant, The Shakespeare Theatre Company chronicles how a small repertory troupe at the Folger Theatre on Capitol Hill became an internationally renowned company performing in a lavish, multi-venue performing arts center in downtown Washington, D.C. The artistic vision and business acumen of Michael Kahn, the founding Artistic Director, largely catalyzed this transformation, but so too did the forces of neoliberalism and, more recently, globalization and new media. Accordingly, this book not only examines directorial decision-making but also three decades of social and economic change in the nation''s capital, such as the complexities of gentrification to the arts policies of successive administrations. In addition to discussions of directorial practice, this book examines the ambivalence of American theatre artists toward their British cultural inheritance. Analyses of representative productions and interviews with Kahn and his British successor, Simon Godwin, illuminate this complex relationship: one that aspires to a cosmopolitan Anglophilia while simultaneously positioning classically trained American actors as worthy rivals to their counterparts at the RSC and the National Theatre of Great Britain.>

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• Authors: Drew Lichtenberg, Drew (Theatre artist Lichtenberg, Deborah C Payne, Deborah C. Payne, Deborah C. (American University Payne, Payne Deborah C.
• Assisted by: Peter Holland (Editor of the series), Farah Karim Cooper (Editor of the series), Stephen Purcell (Editor of the series), Purcell Stephen (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2024
• EAN: 9781350352681
• ISBN: 978-1-350-35268-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, DRAMA / Shakespeare, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Theatre: individual actors & directors, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, North America (USA and Canada), Individual actors and performers, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean