Title Staging strangers : theatre and global ethics / Barry Freeman

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Prologue : strangers at the threshold -- Making a world of difference -- Church basement globalism -- Domesticating the stranger -- A new melodrama of globalization -- Making strange : the "active" audience -- Epilogue : stranger danger Summary "Staging Strangers: Theatre and Global Ethics is a study of cultural difference in contemporary Canadian theatre. Theatre in Canada has long been a forum for cultural communities to celebrate their traditions, but it has now emerged as a forum for staging stories that stretch beyond local and national communities. This book onsiders the new demand this global shift is placing on theatre's narratives and strategies and asks: how might theatre more meaningfully and ethically stage strangers? Combining archival research and performance analysis to discuss a set of performances mainly in Toronto, Staging Strangers offers a fresh look how theatre can be an important site of cultural encounter in a global age. Because the examples are mainly drawn from Toronto, the book is also a study of how cultural difference is realized in an emblematic "global city." The book adopts the guiding metaphor of "the stranger" to discuss the many ways cultural difference is made to appear-or disappear-onstage. Equally, the book considers the many ways the stranger on stage may be fetishized or domesticated, marked for assimilation, or made an object of fear. It argues that a theatre that only valorizes individual, cultural "self-realization" and concretizes cultural difference may at times also erect barriers to meaningful ethical engagement with strangers. More than a descriptive text about a shift toward the global, the book offers a vision of theatre that contributes meaningfully to global ethics, that is, a sense of ethical esponsibility to global issues and distant strangers."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Theater and globalization -- Canada Theater and internationalism -- Canada Multiculturalism in the theater -- Canada Theater and society -- Canada Intercultural communication in the performing arts -- Canada Race in the theater -- Canada Ethnicity in the theater. Theater -- Canada PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General. Ethnicity in the theater Intercultural communication in the performing arts Multiculturalism in the theater Race in the theater Theater Theater and globalization Theater and internationalism Theater and society Fremder Motiv Theater Canada Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773549531 0773549536 9780773549548 0773549544

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