Theory for Theatre Studies: Space

Kim Solga is Professor of Theatre Studies and English and Writing Studies at Western University, Canada. Her books include A Cultural History of Theatre in The Modern Age (Methuen Drama, 2017), Theatre & Feminism (2015), Performance and the City (2009) and Performance and the Global City (2013), which together won the 2016 ATHE prize for Excellence in Editing, and Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance (2009). She writes the teaching blog The Activist Classroom, available from Wordpress.

• AcknowledgementsSeries PrefaceIntroduction: Making Room for Space at the Theatre Locate Yourself The Way Ahead Section One: Methodologies and Approaches The Back Story: The Spaces of Classical Dramatic Theory Contemporary Lens #1: Theatre and the Production of Social Space Contemporary Lens #2: Genre and “Topographic” Space Contemporary Lens #3: The Heterotopic Stage Section Two: Extended Case Studies Case Study #1: ‘And While London Burns’ Case Study #2: ‘Fräulein Julie’ Case Study #3: ‘The Shipment’ Section Three: Towards a Decolonized Stage Locating Settler Colonialism Seeing Like a Settler “A Concert and a Conversation”: ‘Kiinalik – These Sharp Tools’ Notes Further readingBibliographyIndex

Theory for Theatre Studies investigates a wide range of methodologies to corroborate longstanding discourse surrounding space, place, and performance. Solga uses this volume to examine how new understandings of theatrical and performance events can evolve from varying approaches to and in theatrical spaces. A self-proclaimed modern feminist, Solga is also author of Theatre and Feminism (2016) and Violence against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts (2009). From speculative queries to in-depth case studies, the present title offers insight into historical dramatic theories and unpacks 20th-century theater trends. Summing Up: Recommended.