Theatre and Tourism

Margaret Werry is Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance. She is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in Performance Studies (PhD Northwestern University, 2001), who works across the fields of Theatre, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, and Cultural History. Her forthcoming book, The Tourist State: Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and the Racial Imagination examines the relationship between tourism, performance, indigenous politics, and liberal state-making, looking at cultural policy and tourism practice in the South Pacific at the turn of the 20th century, and the turn of the 21st. She has published on this topic and on others—critical and experimental pedagogy, spatial theory, intercultural performance, photographic criticism, multi-media performance, cinema, museology, and cultural policy—in a range of US and international journals. She is also an actor, dramaturge, and performance artist and has worked with Chicago companies Lookinglass Theatre and Naked Eye.

• 1. Introduction2. Theatrical Tourism 3. Touristic Theatre4. Staging Culture