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Part of the new Theory for Theatre Studies, this is a foundational text for students of theatre and performance. The book provides an introduction to theories of space as they have been understood in critical discussions of theatrical productions and performances, and is underpinned by substantive case studies.

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Space: it´s everywhere, all around, a given. It´s abstract and yet not abstract at all, because it governs all human relations, shapes the way we understand our place on the planet, and orients us toward others (for better and for worse). How do theatre scholars understand space and place in performance? What tools do they use to theorize the political work space does on - and beyond - the stage? How can students use these tools to unpack the workings of space and place in the performances they see, the plays they study, and the experiences they have outside their classrooms?

Theory for Theatre Studies: Space provides a comprehensive introduction to the ´spatial turn´ in modern theatre and performance theory, exploring topics as diverse as embodied space, environmental performance politics and urban performance studies. The book is written in accessible prose and features in-depth case studies of Platform´s audio walk And While London Burns, Katie Mitchell´s Fraülein Julie, Young Jean Lee´s The Shipment, and Evalyn Parry and Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory´s Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools. TfTS: Space begins with fresh readings of historical dramatic theory, discusses twentieth-century theoretical trends at length, and ends by asking what it will take (and what work is already underway) to decolonize the Western, settler-colonial stage.

Online resources to accompany this book are available at:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/theory-for-theatre-studies-space-9781350006072/

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Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Introduction: 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 reading

Bibliography

Index

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Kim Solga´s Theory for Theatre Studies: Space offers new considerations of foundational twentieth-century cultural materialism and boldly takes on vital new discourses. In so doing, Solga reinserts the stakes and dynamizes the discussion of spatiality in twenty-first-century theatre and performance studies. Scott Magelssen, University of Washington School of Drama, USA

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