| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 198 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Methuen drama
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| Summary |
In Place of a Show is a compelling account of Western theatre buildings in the 21st century: theatres stripped of their primary purpose, lying empty, preserved as museums, or demolished. Playfully combining first-person narratives, scholarly research and visual documents, Augusto Corrieri explores the material and imaginative potentials of these places, charting interconnections between humans, birds, vegetation, and the beguiling animations of inanimate things, such as walls, curtains and seats. Across four chapters we learn of the uncanny dismantling and reconstitution of a German Baroque auditorium during the Second World War; the phantasmal remains of a demolished music hall in London's East End; a Renaissance Italian theatre, fleetingly transformed into an aviary by the appearance of a swallow; and a lavish opera house emerging from the Amazon rainforest. In these pages we are invited to discover theatres as sites of anomalous encounters and surprising coincidences: places that might reveal the performative entanglement of human and nonhuman worlds |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index. |
| Contents |
Cuvilliés-theater: the lasting house -- Dalston theatre: progress report on a missing building -- Teatro olimpico: the avian theatre -- Teatro Amazonas: 'the opera house in the jungle' |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Theaters -- Reconstruction.
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Theaters -- Reconstruction. |
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ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial. |
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Theatre direction & production. |
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Architectural structure & design. |
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Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc. |
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Theatre studies. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Corrieri, Augusto. In place of a show. London : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016 9781474256728 (OCoLC)946116204 |
| ISBN |
9781474256742 (electronic book) |
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1474256740 (electronic book) |
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9781474256735 (epub) |
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1474256732 (epub) |
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9781474256759 (online) |
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1474256759 (online) |
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9781474256728 (hardback) |
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1474256724 (hardback) |
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9781350054448 (paperback) |
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1350054445 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
10.5040/9781474256759 |
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