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Title The local meets the global in performance / edited by Pirkko Koski and Melissa Sihra
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 199 pages) : illustrations
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; THE GLOBAL AND LOCAL IN ETHICS, EDUCATION AND REPRESENTATION; INTERNATIONALISM, PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC CULTURE; RECONSTRUCTING THE 'LOCAL'; THE LURE OF THE LOCAL, THE SEDUCTION OF THE GLOBAL; BALANCING THE 'LOCAL' AND THE 'GLOBAL' IN THEATRE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE; PERFECT UNHAPPINESS; ON THEATRE AND EXILE; TWO BENEFITS OF LIBERALIZATION; TA'ZIYEH AS THEATRICAL EVENT; THE STRUGGLE FOR LOCAL SUDANESE THEATRE IN COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL TIMES; THE LOCAL MEETS THE GLOBAL IN PERFORMANCE; CONTRIBUTORS' BIOGRAPHIES
Summary This anthology explores the ways in which theatre and performance functions at the interstices of contemporary local and global networks. Theatre and performance occurs in time and space and exists between the audience and performer as a communicative eve
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Performing arts -- Social aspects
Performing arts -- Audiences.
Theater and society.
Theater and globalization.
The arts.
Theory of art.
Art styles not defined by date.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
Performing arts -- Audiences
Performing arts -- Social aspects
Theater and globalization
Theater and society
Form Electronic book
Author Koski, Pirkko
Sihra, Melissa, 1973-
LC no. 2010478054
ISBN 9781443820172
1443820172
9786612588297
6612588292