By Michael McKinnie
ISBN-10: 1442615974
ISBN-13: 9781442615977
In each significant urban, there exists a posh alternate among city house and the establishment of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist research of this courting because it has existed in Toronto considering the fact that 1967. finding theatre businesses - their websites and practices - in Toronto's city surroundings, Michael McKinnie specializes in the ways that the theatre has tailored to alterations in civic ideology, atmosphere, and financial system.
Over the prior 4 a long time, theatre in Toronto has been more and more implicated within the civic self-fashioning of the town and preoccupied with the results of the altering city political economy. urban Stages investigates a few key questions that relate to this trend. How has theatre been used to justify sure types of city improvement in Toronto? How have neighborhood actual property markets prompted the ways that theatre businesses gather and use functionality house? How does the research of theatre as an city phenomenon complicate Canadian theatre historiography?
McKinnie makes use of the St. Lawrence Centre for the humanities and the Toronto Centre for the appearing Arts as case stories and considers theatrical businesses equivalent to Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto Workshop Productions, associates in undesirable occasions, and helpful Angel in his analysis. urban Stages combines basic archival learn with the scholarly literature rising from either the arts and social sciences. the result's a finished and empirical exam of the connection among the theatrical arts and the city areas that residence them.
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