Performance and the City

Description

Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016 Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction: City/Text/Performance....Pages 1-9 Front Matter....Pages 11-14 Ways to Walk New York After 9/11....Pages 15-32 Memory/Memorial/Performance: Lower Manhattan, 1776/2001....Pages 33-50 Patricide and the Passerby....Pages 51-67 Front Matter....Pages 69-72 Multicultural Text, Intercultural Performance: The Performance Ecology of Contemporary Toronto....Pages 73-91 Mission Accomplished: Broadway, 9/11, and the Republican National Convention....Pages 92-109 Performing the Civic Transnational: Cultural Production, Governance, and Citizenship in Contemporary London....Pages 110-127 Front Matter....Pages 129-132 Surviving the City: Press Agents, Publicity Stunts, and the Spectacle of the Urban Female Body....Pages 133-151 Dress Suits to Hire and the Landscape of Queer Urbanity....Pages 152-168 Global Exposures: Blur Street and Interurban Self-Portraiture (a Photo-Essay)....Pages 169-181 Front Matter....Pages 183-186 Staging the Imagined City in Australian Theatre....Pages 187-203 Agency and Complicity in ‘A Special Civic Room’: London’s Tate Modern Turbine Hall....Pages 204-221 Staging a Vanished Community: Daniel Libeskind’s Scenography in the Berlin Jewish Museum....Pages 222-239 Can the City Speak? Site-Specific Art After Poststructuralism....Pages 240-257 Afterword: Performing the City — A Wonder Cabinet....Pages 258-261 Back Matter....Pages 263-269