Theatre Symposium, Vol. 17 Outdoor Performance |
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| Editor:
| Malarcher, Jay |
| Contribution by:
| Headrick, Charlotte J.
LoMonaco, Martha S.
Barnette, Jane
Bruegge, Andrew Vorder
Williams, Jeanmarie Higgins
Gallagher, Angela Sweigart
Magnuson, Landis K. |
| Series title: | Theatre Symposium Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8173-8297-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Publisher: | University of Alabama Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $122.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More Description 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; Wheels-A-Rolling, and other railroad themed pageants; first-hand accounts of the innovative Hunter Hills theatre program in Tennessee; the role of traditional outdoor historical drama, particularly the long-running performances of Paul Green's The Lost Colony; and the rise of the part dance, part sport, part performance phenomenon "parkour"-- the improvised traversal of obstacles found in both urban and rural landscapes.