This collection considers what is at stake when a theatrical space is created and when a performance takes place, asking under which circumstances the topology of theatre becomes political. The book focuses on this issue from various angles, taking theatre as a cultural paradigm for political dimensions of space in its respective historical context. From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space shared by actors and spectators, and as a result its entity and history is intimately tied to politics; a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts. Visiting the political dimensions of theatrical space in both theatre history and contemporary performance, the volume responds to the so-called spatial turn in cultural and historical studies, and questions a politics of aesthetics that is discussed in continental philosophy. The book visits different levels and linkages between aesthetic theory and geography, art and sociology, architecture and political theory, and geometry and history, shedding new light on theatre, politics, and space, thereby transforming this historically intertwined triad into a transdisciplinary theme.
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Publisher: Routledge
Released: 2012
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