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Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860 examines how Americans staged
their cultures in the decades before the Civil War, and advances
the idea that cultures are performances that take place both inside
and outside of playhouses. Americans imaginatively expanded
conventional ideas of performance as an activity restricted to
theatres in order to take up the staging of culture in other
venues: in issues of class, race, and gender, in parades and the
visits of dignitaries, in rioting and the denomination of
prostitutes, and in views of the town, the city, and the frontier.
Joining up-to-date historical research with a firm and clear-headed
grasp of contemporary critical theory, Theatre Culture in America
offers a wholly original approach to the complex intersections of
American theatre and culture.
Since Chicago's founding, theater has blossomed in the city's
makeshift spaces, from taverns to parks, living rooms to
storefronts. Makeshift Chicago Stages brings together leading
historians to share the history of theater and performance in the
Second City. The essays collected here theorize a regional theater
history and aesthetic that are inherently improvisational,
rough-and-tumble, and marginal, reflecting the realities of a
hypersegregated city and its neighborhoods. Space and place have
contributed to Chicago's reputation for gritty, ensemble-led work,
part of a makeshift ethos that exposes the policies of the city and
the transgressive possibilities of performance. This book examines
the rise and proliferation of Chicago's performance spaces, which
have rooted the city's dynamic, thriving theater community.
Chapters cover well-known, groundbreaking, and understudied
theatrical sites, ensembles, and artists, including the 1893
Columbian Exposition Midway Plaisance, the 57th Street Artist
Colony, the Fine Arts Building, the Goodman Theatre, the Federal
Theatre Project, the Kingston Mines and Body Politic Theaters,
ImprovOlympics (later iO), Teatro Vista, Theaster Gates, and the
Chicago Home Theater Festival. By putting space at the center of
the city's theater history, the authors in Makeshift Chicago Stages
spotlight the roles of neighborhoods, racial dynamics, atypical
venues, and borders as integral to understanding the work and
aesthetics of Chicago's artists, ensembles, and repertoires, which
have influenced theater practices worldwide. Featuring rich
archival work and oral histories, this anthology will prove a
valuable resource for theater historians, as well as anyone
interested in Chicago's cultural heritage.
Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860 advances the idea that cultures are performances that take place both inside and outside of playhouses. Americans imaginatively expanded conventional ideas of performance as an activity restricted to theaters in order to take up the staging of culture in other venues--in issues of class, race, and gender, in parades and the visits of dignitaries, in rioting and the denomination of prostitutes, and in the views of the town, the city, and the frontier. Joining up-to-date historical research with a firm and clear-headed grasp of contemporary critical theory, Theatre Culture in America offers a wholly original approach to the complex intersections of American theater and culture.
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