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2 produkter
2 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
265 kr
Kommande
From ruined convents to rooftop gardens, parking lots to Zoom calls, theatre practitioners around the world are staging Shakespeare in a variety of unconventional and unexpected spaces. Drawing on practitioner interviews, case studies, and ten years of personal experience, this Element argues site-specific theatre-makers leverage 'tactical intelligence' in Shakespeare performance: a capacity for theatrical meaning-making through creative responses to spatial constraints, rather than strategic control. Organised around a heuristic of five types of 'site'- Revenant, Found, Shifting, Green, and Viral - with a conclusion that examines the challenges facing 'Future Sites' - the Element reveals a 'Guerrilla Shakespeare' in global site-specific performance. This is Shakespeare with a 'punk', 'pirate', 'bodega' spirit, where economic precarity is met with creative freedom and institutional barriers yield to democratic accessibility.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
1 514 kr
Kommande
This innovative study builds on the latest developments in theatre history, playhouse archaeology, textual studies, and performance research to present a new style of Shakespeare in the East End. between the years 1596 and 1599.While Stratford is home to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Southwark has its reconstructed Globe, Shakespeare’s storied connection with London’s East End lies a distant third in contemporary discourse. But it was here, among the alleys and the stews of Whitechapel and Shoreditch, that the young poet first made his name in the late 1590s, writing, staging, and acting in plays quite unlike anything at the Globe or the RSC today. Building on a remarkable series of findings from recent excavations at East End playhouse sites, this innovative study brings together the latest advances in theatre history, textual studies, and performance research to present a new style of Shakespeare in the East End. Focusing on the two-year period when the Chamberlain’s Men were resident at the Curtain Playhouse in Shoreditch, the book explores a range of distinctive features—from stage combat to sex work, dancing to drinking, and jigging to jingoism—that influenced the aesthetics and utility of Shakespeare’s dramatic texts in their East End performances. The result was a riotous and resourceful, spectacular and violent, direct and interactive style of Shakespeare, quite unlike any other stage in his career or at any other playhouse.