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100 1 _aCalder, David
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245 1 0 _aStreet theatre and the production of postindustrial space : Working memories
260 _aManchester, UK
_bManchester University Press
_c2019
300 _a1 electronic resource (216 p.)
506 0 _aOpen Access
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520 _aStreet theatre and the production of postindustrial space explores how street theatre transforms industrial space into postindustrial space. Deindustrializing communities have increasingly turned to cultural projects to commemorate industrial heritage while simultaneously generating surplus value and jobs in a changing economy. Through analysis of French street theatre companies working out of converted industrial sites, this book reveals how theatre and performance more generally participate in and make historical sense of ongoing urban and economic change. The book argues, firstly, that deindustrialization and redevelopment rely on the spatial and temporal logics of theatre and performance. Redevelopment requires theatrical events and performative acts that revise, resituate, and re-embody particular pasts. The book proposes working memory as a central metaphor for these processes. The book argues, secondly, that in contemporary France street theatre has emerged as working memory's privileged artistic form. If the transition from industrial to postindustrial space relies on theatrical logics, those logics will manifest differently depending on geographic context. The book links the proliferation of street theatre in France since the 1970s to the crisis in Fordist-Taylorist modernity. How have street theatre companies converted spaces of manufacturing into spaces of theatrical production? How do these companies (with municipal governments and developers) connect their work to the work that occurred in these spaces in the past? How do those connections manifest in theatrical events, and how do such events give shape and meaning to redevelopment? Street theatre’s function is both economic and historiographic. It makes the past intelligible as past and useful to the present.
536 _aUniversity of Manchester
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650 7 _aTheatre studies
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650 7 _aTheatre direction & production
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650 7 _aStreet theatre
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653 _astreet theatre
653 _apostindustrial space
653 _adeindustrialization
653 _aredevelopment
653 _aworking memory
653 _atheatricality
653 _aperformativity
653 _atheatre historiography
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