Staging Ageing: Theatre, Performance and the Narrative of Decline

Mangan, Michael

ISBN 10: 1783200138 / ISBN 13: 9781783200139

Published by Intellect Ltd, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Staging Ageing: Theatre, Performance and the Narrative of Decline
• Publisher: Intellect Ltd
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783200138
• ISBN 13: 9781783200139
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1789590369.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 48314877
• Signed: 9/16/2026 8:26:09 PM
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Synopsis

How can plays and performances, past and present, inform our understanding of ageing? Drawing primarily on the Western dramatic canon, on contemporary British theater, on popular culture, and on paratheatrical practices, Staging Ageing investigates theatrical engagement with ageing from the Greek chorus to Reminiscence Theater. It also explores the relationship of the plays, performances, and practices to the material, social, and ideological conditions that produced them. A seminal work on the cultural past and present of ageing, the book will find grateful audiences not only among scholars but also among theater and health care professionals.

About the Author

Michael Mangan is professor of drama at Loughborough University, UK.