Outdoor performance.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Southeastern Theatre Conference (U.S.)

Conference Name:

SETC Theatre Symposium.

Series:

Theatre symposium ; v. 17.

Theatre symposium : a publication of the Southeastern Theatre Conference ; v. 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater, Open-air.

Theater--Congresses.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Tuscaloosa, Ala.] : Southeastern Theatre Conference and the University of Alabama Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Outdoor drama takes many forms: ancient Greek theatre, open-air performances of Shakespeare at summer festivals, and re-enactments of landmark historical events. The essays gathered in ""Outdoor Performance,"" Volume 17 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium, address outdoor theatre's many manifestations, including the historical and non-traditional. Among other subjects, these essays explore the rise of ""airdomes"" as performance spaces in the American Midwest in the first half of the 20th century; the civic-religious pageants staged by certain Mormon congregations; Whe

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Theatre Symposium Keynote Roundtable: Saturday, April 12, 2008; "No Roof Except the Sky": The Rise and Fall of Airdomes in American Popular Entertainment; Rail-izing the Nation along Lake Michigan: The Wheels-a-Rolling Pageant; Mormon Pageants as American Historical Performance; "Look at the Moon": Hunter Hills Theatre; Outdoor Drama in the Smokies; The Promise of Democracy: Imagining National Community in Paul Green's The Lost Colony; The Revitalization of Space: Freestyle Parkour and Its Audiences; Symposium Response; Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8173-8297-6

OCLC:

772845412