In place of a show : what happens inside theatres when nothing is happening / .Augusto Corrieri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corrieri, Augusto, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Publishing series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theaters--Reconstruction.

Theaters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2,092 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition 2016

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury UK, 2020.

System Details:

HTML

text file

Summary:

In Place of a Show is a compelling account of Western theatre buildings in the 21st century: theatres stripped of their primary purpose, lying empty, preserved as museums, or demolished. Playfully combining first-person narratives, scholarly research and visual documents, Augusto Corrieri explores the material and imaginative potentials of these places, charting interconnections between humans, birds, vegetation, and the beguiling animations of inanimate things, such as walls, curtains and seats. Across four chapters we learn of the uncanny dismantling and reconstitution of a German Baroque auditorium during the Second World War; the phantasmal remains of a demolished music hall in London's East End; a Renaissance Italian theatre, fleetingly transformed into an aviary by the appearance of a swallow; and a lavish opera house emerging from the Amazon rainforest. In these pages we are invited to discover theatres as sites of anomalous encounters and surprising coincidences: places that might reveal the performative entanglement of human and nonhuman worlds.

Contents:

Cuvilliés-theater: the lasting house

Dalston theatre: progress report on a missing building

Teatro olimpico: the avian theatre

Teatro Amazonas: 'the opera house in the jungle'

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index

Description based on print version record

ISBN:

9781474256759

1474256759

9781474256735

1474256732

9781474256742

1474256740

OCLC:

1201426448