Performing Objects and Theatrical Things [electronic resource] /
Schweitzer, Marlis.author.
Zerdy, Joanne.author.
This book rethinks historical and contemporary theatre, performance, and cultural events by scrutinizing and theorizing the objects and things that activate stages, venues, environments, and archives.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Object Lessons; Part I: Archival Digs; 1 Technology and Wonder in Thirteenth-Century Iberia and Beyond; 2 ""Nothing but a string of beads"": Maud Allan's Salomé Costume as a ""choreographic thing""; 3 Cartomania and the Scriptive Album: Cartes-de-Visite as Objects of Social Practice; 4 The Linguistic Animation of an American Yorick; 5 House Arrest: Museological Performance, Animacy, and the Remains of Rural America; Part II: Embodied Research Practices
6 The Unfolding Roles of a Walking Map within NVA's Half Life7 Military Memorialization and its Object(s) of Period Purification; 8 Entided, Enwatered, Enwinded: Human/More-than-Human Agencies in Site-specific Performance; Part III: Materialist Semiotics; 9 ""All Transparent"": Pepper's Ghost, Plate Glass, and Theatrical Transformation; 10 Que(e)rying Theatrical Objects; 11 Making the Invisible Visible: Virtual Stage Props and Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus
12 Relic, Souvenir, or Just Hair?: Exploring the Complexities of Objects as Actants and Things as Mementos in the Merchandise of El Vez, The Mexican ElvisPart IV: Excavating Between the Lines; 13 Props Breaking Character: The Performance and Failure of Real Objects on the Naturalist Stage; 14 Bodied Objects: An Analysis of the Whip in George Aiken's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man; 15 Translocalized Drums: Mobilizing the Intercultural in the Cantares Mexicanos; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book rethinks historical and contemporary theatre, performance, and cultural events by scrutinizing and theorizing the objects and things that activate stages, venues, environments, and archives.
Theater—History.
Performing arts.
Arts.
Theater.
Theatre History.
Performing Arts.
Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.