1st Edition

Performance and the Politics of Space Theatre and Topology

Edited By Erika Fischer-Lichte, Benjamin Wihstutz Copyright 2013
312 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

340 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

326 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is intimately tied to politics: a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts. This collection examines what is at stake when a theatrical space is created and when a performance... Read more

Part 1: Placements and Boundaries  1. The Theatre ici Marvin Carlson  2. Monarchs on Trial at the Early Modern Court Janette Dillon  3. What time is this place? Continuity, Conflict and the Right to the City: Lessons from Haymarket Square Loren Kruger  4. Performing Like a City: London's South Bank and the Cultural Politics of Urban Governance Michael McKinnie  5. What is Sydney about Sydney theatre?: Performance Space and the Creation of a ‘Matrix of Sensibility’ Gay McAuley  6. Thresholds of Tolerance: Censorship, Artistic Freedom and the Theatrical Public Sphere Christopher Balme  7. "Set in Poland, that is to say Nowhere": Alfred Jarry and the Politics of Topological Space Nicolas Salazar-Sutil  Part 2: Utopia and Heterotopia  8. Equality and Theatre Architecture: Voltaire’s Private Theatre Ludger Schwarte  9. Rousseau's Heterotopology of Theatre Juliane Rebentisch  10. Heterotopias of the Public Sphere: Theatre and Festival around 1800 Patrick Primavesi  11. Other Space or Space of Others?: Reflections on Contemporary Political Theatre Benjamin Wihstutz  12. Opéra Pagaï’s Entreprise de Détournement: Collages of Geographic, Imaginary and Discursive Spaces Susan Haedicke  Part 3: Strategies of Spatial Appropriation  13. Policies of Spatial Appropriation Erika Fischer-Lichte  14. "Moment to Moment—Space": The Architecture Performances of Gordon Matta-Clark Philip Ursprung  15. Uncanny Connections: William Forsythe’s Choreographic Installations Kirsten Maar  16. Change through Rapprochement: Spatial Practices in Contemporary Performances Jens Roselt  17. Life Politics/Life Aesthetics: Environmental Performance in red, black, GREEN: a blues Shannon Jackson

Biography

Erika Fischer-Lichte is Professor of Theatre Studies at Free University Berlin.

Benjamin Wihstutz is a Research Associate at the Institute for Theatre Studies at Free University Berlin