What is globalization? What role is there for the theatre in a globalizing world? Drawing on sources from Aeschylus to The Lion King, Shakespeare to Robert Lepage, tragedy to advertising, this original and provocative book explores the contribution that the theatre has made to our slowly evolving consciousness of our world as a whole.

Offers a unified, consistent and coherent theory of theatre's relationship to globalization
Part of the successful and innovative Theatre And series

Autorentext

Dan Rebellato is an experienced, internationally performed playwright for theatre and radio. He has taught playwriting for 25 years for various universities, writers' groups, Arvon and elsewhere. He has also written widely and influentially on contemporary British theatre, with a focus on the theory and practice of new writing. He is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Zusammenfassung
Drawing on sources from Aeschylus to The Lion King, Chekhov to Complicite, tragedy to advertising, the book argues for theatre's importance as a site of resistance to the ruthless spread of the global market. Foreword by Mark Ravenhill

Inhalt

Series Editors' Preface.- Foreword; Mark Ravenhill.- Artaud at the Balinese Theatre.- What is Globalization?.- Theatre and Globalization?.- It's the Economy, Stupid.- Karl Marx.- Nineteenth-century Globalization.- Twentieth-century Globalization.- Globalization: For and Against.- McTheatre.- A Short History of the Theatre Programme.- The Anti-globalization Movement.- Localization.- Cosmopolitanism.- Universals and Theatre.- Cosmopolitanism vs. Globalization.- Theatre& Cosmopolitanism.- Conclusion.- Further Reading.- Index.