Synopsis
How has theatre represented the rural? And how does a re-viewing of theatre of and in the rural help to build and complicate our sense of place?
Theatre & the Rural explores the different ways in which theatre has performed the rural from the medieval to the contemporary, and examines the changing relationships between place, performance and audience when theatre is staged in rural communities. The book argues that theatre has a key role to play in both producing and potentially changing understandings of the rural, challenging dominant views of the relationships between city and country which can affect the political, social and cultural lives of the nation.
About the Authors
Jo Robinson is Professor of Theatre and Performance at Newcastle University, UK, and a former convenor of the IFTR Historiography Working Group and of the TaPRA History and Historiography Working Group. She led the AHRC project, 'Mapping the Moment: Performance Culture in Nottingham 1857–1867', outputs from which were published in Performance Research, Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film and the International Journal of Humanities and Computing. Her publications include Theatre & the Rural (2016) and, with Claire Cochrane, the edited collection Theatre History and Historiography: Ethics, Evidence and Truth (2016).
Margherita Laera is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at the University of Kent, where she serves as Deputy Head of the School of Arts and Architecture. She is the author of Playwriting in Europe: Mapping Ecosystems and Practices with Fabulamundi (Routledge Focus, 2022); Theatre & Translation (Methuen Drama, 2019) and Reaching Athens: Community, Democracy and Other Mythologies in Adaptations of Greek Tragedy (Peter Lang, 2013), and editor of Theatre and Adaptation: Return, Rewrite, Repeat (Methuen Drama, 2014). Margherita also works as a theatre translator from and into Italian and English. She is co-editor of the 'Theatre &' book series for Methuen Drama, and founder of Performing International Plays, an organization promoting theatre (in) translation in secondary schools.
Natalie Alvarez is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies and Associate Dean of Scholarly, Research, and Creative Activities in The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is the author, editor, and co-editor of four award-winning books including Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times: Performance Actions in the Americas (2019) and Immersions in Cultural Difference: Tourism, War, Performance (2018).
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