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In place of a show : what happens inside theatres when nothing is happening /

In Place of a Show is a compelling account of Western theatre buildings in the 21st century: theatres stripped of their primary purpose, lying empty, preserved as museums, or demolished. Playfully combining first-person narratives, scholarly research and visual documents, Augusto Corrieri explores t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Corrieri, Augusto (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury UK, 2016
Colección:Methuen drama
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In Place of a Show is a compelling account of Western theatre buildings in the 21st century: theatres stripped of their primary purpose, lying empty, preserved as museums, or demolished. Playfully combining first-person narratives, scholarly research and visual documents, Augusto Corrieri explores the material and imaginative potentials of these places, charting interconnections between humans, birds, vegetation, and the beguiling animations of inanimate things, such as walls, curtains and seats. Across four chapters we learn of the uncanny dismantling and reconstitution of a German Baroque auditorium during the Second World War; the phantasmal remains of a demolished music hall in London's East End; a Renaissance Italian theatre, fleetingly transformed into an aviary by the appearance of a swallow; and a lavish opera house emerging from the Amazon rainforest. In these pages we are invited to discover theatres as sites of anomalous encounters and surprising coincidences: places that might reveal the performative entanglement of human and nonhuman worlds
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 198 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index
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