By Nadine Holdsworth
This booklet explores the ways in which pre-existing ‘national’ works or ‘national theatre’ websites can supply a wealthy resource of fabric for chatting with the modern second as a result resonances or institutions they give of a special time, position, politics, or tradition. that includes a huge foreign scope, it deals a chain of thought-provoking essays that discover how playwrights, administrators, theatre-makers, and function artists have re-staged or re-worked a vintage nationwide play, functionality, theatrical shape, or theatre house to be able to interact with conceptions of and questions round the country, nationalism, and nationwide id within the modern second, establishing up new methods of considering or problematizing questions round the country and nationwide identification. Chapters ask how productions interact with a specific second within the nationwide psyche within the context of internationalism and globalization, for instance, in addition to how productions discover the interconnectivity of countries, intercultural agendas, or cosmopolitanism. in addition they discover questions with regards to the presence of migrants, exiles, or refugees, and the legacy of colonial histories and post-colonial subjectivities. the quantity highlights how theatre and function has the facility to contest and unsettle rules of the kingdom and nationwide identification by utilizing numerous websites, stagings, and function concepts, and the way modern theatres have portrayed nationwide agendas and characters at a time of extreme cultural flux and repositioning.
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7. Nicholas Hytner, Foreword to Theatre and Nation, by Nadine Holdsworth (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), ix. 16 Nadine Holdsworth 8. Quoted in Tim Edensor, National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life (Oxford: Berg, 2002), 11. 9. Reinelt, “The Role of National Theatres in an Age of Globalization,” 228. 10. Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994), 208. 11. Loren Kruger, “The National Stage and the Naturalized House: (Trans) National Legitimation in Modern Europe,” in National Theatres in a Changing Europe, ed.
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