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Theatre and Internationalization examines how internationalization
affects the processes and aesthetics of theatre, and how this art
form responds dramatically and thematically to internationalization
beyond the stage. With central examples drawn from Australia and
Germany from the 1930s to the present day, the book considers
theatre and internationalization through a range of theoretical
lenses and methodological practices, including archival research,
aviation history, theatre historiography, arts policy,
organizational theory, language analysis, academic-practitioner
insights, and literary-textual studies. While drawing attention to
the ways in which theatre and internationalization might be
contributing productively to each other and to the communities in
which they operate, it also acknowledges the limits and problematic
aspects of internationalization. Taking an unusually wide approach
to theatre, the book includes chapters by specialists in popular
commercial theatre, disability theatre, Indigenous performance,
theatre by and for refugees and other migrants, young people as
performers, opera and operetta, and spoken art theatre. An
excellent resource for academics and students of theatre and
performance studies, especially in the fields of spoken theatre,
opera and operetta studies, and migrant theatre, Theatre and
Internationalization explores how theatre shapes and is shaped by
international flows of people, funds, practices, and works.
Theatre and Internationalization examines how internationalization
affects the processes and aesthetics of theatre, and how this art
form responds dramatically and thematically to internationalization
beyond the stage. With central examples drawn from Australia and
Germany from the 1930s to the present day, the book considers
theatre and internationalization through a range of theoretical
lenses and methodological practices, including archival research,
aviation history, theatre historiography, arts policy,
organizational theory, language analysis, academic-practitioner
insights, and literary-textual studies. While drawing attention to
the ways in which theatre and internationalization might be
contributing productively to each other and to the communities in
which they operate, it also acknowledges the limits and problematic
aspects of internationalization. Taking an unusually wide approach
to theatre, the book includes chapters by specialists in popular
commercial theatre, disability theatre, Indigenous performance,
theatre by and for refugees and other migrants, young people as
performers, opera and operetta, and spoken art theatre. An
excellent resource for academics and students of theatre and
performance studies, especially in the fields of spoken theatre,
opera and operetta studies, and migrant theatre, Theatre and
Internationalization explores how theatre shapes and is shaped by
international flows of people, funds, practices, and works.
Shakespeare as Jukebox Musical is the first book-length study of a
growing performance phenomenon: musical adaptations of
Shakespeare's plays in which characters sing existing popular songs
as one of their modes of communication. John Severn shows how these
highly allusive works give rise to the pleasures of collaborative
reception, and also lend themselves to political work, particularly
in terms of identity politics and a valorisation of diversity.
Drawing on musical theatre history, adaptation theory, Shakespeare
studies and musicology, the book develops a critical approach that
allows jukebox-musical versions of Shakespeare to be understood and
valued both for their political potential and for the experiences
they offer to audiences as artistic responses to Shakespeare. Case
studies from the USA, the UK and Australia demonstrate how these
works open new windows on Shakespeare's plays and their performance
traditions, on the wider jukebox musical trend, and on adaptation
as an art form.
Shakespeare as Jukebox Musical is the first book-length study of a
growing performance phenomenon: musical adaptations of
Shakespeare's plays in which characters sing existing popular songs
as one of their modes of communication. John Severn shows how these
highly allusive works give rise to the pleasures of collaborative
reception, and also lend themselves to political work, particularly
in terms of identity politics and a valorisation of diversity.
Drawing on musical theatre history, adaptation theory, Shakespeare
studies and musicology, the book develops a critical approach that
allows jukebox-musical versions of Shakespeare to be understood and
valued both for their political potential and for the experiences
they offer to audiences as artistic responses to Shakespeare. Case
studies from the USA, the UK and Australia demonstrate how these
works open new windows on Shakespeare's plays and their performance
traditions, on the wider jukebox musical trend, and on adaptation
as an art form.
This book, the first of its kind, surveys the career of the
renowned Australian-German theatre and opera director Barrie Kosky.
Its nine chapters provide multidisciplinary analyses of Barrie
Kosky's working practices and stage productions, from the beginning
of his career in Melbourne to his current roles as Head of the
Komische Oper Berlin and as a guest director in international
demand. Specialists in theatre studies, opera studies, musical
theatre studies, aesthetics, and arts administration offer in-depth
accounts of Kosky's unusually wide-ranging engagements with the
performing arts - as a director of spoken theatre, operas,
musicals, operettas, as an adaptor, a performer, a writer, and an
arts manager. Further, this book includes contributions from
theatre practitioners with first-hand experience of collaborating
with Kosky in the 1990s, who draw on interviews with members of
Gilgul, Australia's first Jewish theatre company, to document this
formative period in Kosky's career. The book investigates the ways
in which Kosky has created transnational theatres, through
introducing European themes and theatre techniques to his
Australian work or through bringing fresh voices to the national
dialogue in Germany's theatre landscape. An appendix contains a
timeline and guide to Kosky's productions to date.
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