Participatory Theatre and the Urban Everyday in South Africa - Place and Play in Johannesburg (Hardcover)

This book explores theatre and performance as participatory research practices for exploring the everyday of the city. Taking an inner-city suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa as its central case study, the book consider how theatre and performance might be both useful practical tools in considering the everyday city, as well as conceptual lenses for understanding it.

The author establishes an understanding of space as ever-evolving and formed through the ongoing relationship between things, human and non-human and considers how theatre and performance offer useful paradigms for learning about and working with city spaces. As ephemeral, embodied, material artistic practices, theatre and performance mirror the nature of everyday life. The book discusses theatre and performance games and playmaking processes as offering valuable ways of discovering daily acts of place-making and providing insights that more conventional research methods may not allow. Yet the book also considers how seeing daily city life as a kind of performance, a kind of theatre in its own right, helps to further understandings of city spaces as ever evolving through complex webs of relationships.

This book will be of interest to academics, academic practitioners and post-graduate students in the fields of theatre and performance studies, urban studies and cultural geography.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Contemporary South Africa
Release date:	December 2019
First published:	2020
Authors:	Alexandra Halligey
Dimensions:	235 x 159 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	180
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-34236-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities Books > Academic & Education > Varsity Textbooks > Social & Politics Books > Academic & Education > Varsity Textbooks > Language & Literature Books > Academic & Education > Varsity Textbooks > Social Studies
LSN:	0-367-34236-7
Barcode:	9780367342364

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