On the Performance Front: US Theatre and Internationalism

by C. Canning

Overview

This book argues that US theatre in the 20th century embraced the theories and practices of internationalism as a way to realize a better world and as part of the strategic reform of the theatre into a national expression. Live performance, theatre internationalists argued, could represent and reflect the nation like no other endeavour.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230233386
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/01/2015
Series:	Studies in International Performance
Edition description:	2015
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Charlotte M. Canning is the Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor in Drama in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is the author of Feminist Theaters In The USA: Staging Women's Experience (1995) and The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance (2005). She co-edited, with Thomas Postlewait, Representing the Past: Essays in Performance Historiography (2010).

Table of Contents

Introduction.- 1. Theatre Arts.- 2. On Stage I: The Wedding Proposal, 1927.- 3. The US (Inter)National Theatre.- 4. On Stage II: Hamlet, 1949.- 5. Tomorrow's Theatre Today.- 6. On Stage III: Porgy and Bess, 1952-1956.- Conclusion.- Index.-