World Stages, Local Audiences: Essays on Performance, Place and Politics

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This book argues that local performance events offer a way to read the world, and an opportunity to remake that world, helping to foster a global political consciousness. Surveying a wide array of theatre, dance, performance and visual art, as well as sporting contests, marriage ceremonies human rights protests, even acts of extreme weather. -- .

Peter Dickinson teaches in the English Department at Simon Fraser University -- .

Wide in scope and roving in style, World Stages, Local Audiences offers readers a rich investigation of the complex and shifting relationships among performance, place, and audience... [The book] ... outlines an ambitious project that ultimately raises important philosophical questions about the situatedness of meaning, opening up new avenues for future research and discussion a divertingly diverse monograph....its four chapters present analyses of a select set of performative/ performance examples that attempt to cross the high wire between "think global" and "act local". For a project of elevated ambitions, this discursive amplitude ... take[s] focused daring to especially encompassing heights -- .