1st Edition
Theatre and Internationalization Perspectives from Australia, Germany, and Beyond
Section 1: Introduction
1. Theatre(s) and Internationalization(s)
Ulrike Garde and John R Severn
Section 2: Theatre and Internationalization: Snapshots from the Twentieth Century to Today
2. 1930s Jazz Operettas and Internationalization Then and Now: Risks, Ethics, Aesthetics
John R Severn
3. Visualizing the Entrepreneurial Networks of International Entertainment: The Dalrays Touring Beyond the Tivoli, 1956-66
Jonathan Bollen
4. Localizing Aboriginal and Pacific Performance on Internationalized Stages, 1967-73
Amanda Harris
5. Collaborative Creation across Borders and Art Forms: A Director’s Perspective on Opera and Internationalization
Sally Blackwood
Section 3: Language and Text in Theatre and Internationalization
6. Negotiating Unfamiliar Languages and Accents in Contemporary Theatre
Ulrike Garde
7. Dramaturgical Oper(a N)ations: De-internationalization in Twenty-First Century American and German-language Libretti
Amy Stebbins
8. Criticizing Globalization in a Theatre of Internationalization?: Concepts of Theatrical Space between Dissolution and Demarcation in Falk Richter’s Electronic City (2003) and Safe Places (2016)
Felix Lempp
Section 4: Internationalization in Contemporary Theatre
9. Internationalization and Contemporary German-speaking Theatremakers and Playwrights
Johannes Birgfeld
10. Who’s Watching? Neo-realism and Global Brand Ibsen in Germany and Australia
Margaret Hamilton
Section 5: Internationalization, Performers, Audiences, Institutions
11. Migration and Theatre in Berlin: The Maxim Gorki Theater and the Komische Oper Berlin
Brangwen Stone
12. Young Artists, International Markets: Legitimizing Myths and Institutional Strategies
Benjamin Hoesch
13. International Percolations of Disability Aesthetics in Dance and Theatre
Christiane Czymoch, Kate Maguire-Rosier, and Yvonne Schmidt
Biography
Ulrike Garde is Head of German Studies at Macquarie University, with research interests covering German intercultural studies and theatre. Her most recent book, co-authored with Meg Mumford, is Theatre of Real People: Diverse Encounters at Berlin’s Hebbel am Ufer and Beyond (2016).
John R. Severn is a Research Fellow at Macquarie University. He is the author of Shakespeare as Jukebox Musical (Routledge, 2019) and is currently working on an Australian Research Council-funded Discovery Project on the economic and cultural value of theatre in Australia.
"Theatre and Internationalization prompts readers to reflect across a broad range of topics and presents them with useful tools to carry out further study. The studies found here will be particularly useful towards developing a language to articulate the complex realities of stage practice and performance, drawing from a considerable theoretical apparatus. The case-study approach grounds the contributions and ensures their concreteness, in an area of study that would otherwise risk falling into sterile abstraction." Serra Porteiro, Scenario, p. 165.
