Performance and the City / Performance Interventions (PDF)

MARLA CARLSON is Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia, USA JEN HARVIE is Reader in Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary, University of London, UK BARBARA HODGDON is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, USA KATHLEEN IRWIN teaches at the University of Regina, Canada RIC KNOWLES is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, Canada LAURA LEVIN is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at York University, UK MICHAEL MCKINNIE is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Queen Mary, University of London, UK REBECCA ANN RUGG teaches in the Department of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the Yale School of Drama, USA REBECCA SCHNEIDER teaches performance studies, theatre studies, and theories of intermedia at Brown University, USA MARLIS SCHWEITZER is Assistant Professor in Theatre Studies at York University, UK JOANNE TOMPKINS teaches at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia KLAUS VAN DEN BERG is Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, USA RACHELLE VIADER KNOWLES is a visual artist working in a broad range of contemporary and digital media SUSAN BENNETT is University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary, Canada

'The publication opens up a relevant perspective for theatre and performance studies as well as allied fields. It emerges at a time when the city, and performance in the city, offer particularly charged experiences.' - Stuart Andrews, University of Surrey, UK, Theatre Research International.

'...high quality, engaging - and moving - explorations of the relationship between spectators, performers and spaces, written by the best scholars in the field both established and emerging.' - Stephen Johnson, Director, Graduate Centre for Drama, University of Toronto, Canada

'Hopkins, Orr and Solga have edited a text which foregrounds the individual's performance of the city. [.... Performance and the City] offers a range of essays that question how the city performs itself, how institutions, organizations and policies perform the city and what role the individual's body might play in this nexus of relationships.' - Lee Miller, University of Plymouth, UK

'Since its publication in 2009, Performance and the City and its expertly curated and introduced essays have quickly circulated and now appear on the reading lists of students and scholars interested in the rapidly growing fields of history and theory of urban theatre and performance. The collection's potential influence extends beyond that for traditional theatre and performance studies; each essay intervenes in larger conversations regarding globalization and urban capital production. The result is that all three editors are today identified as leading figures in the study of the city and urban performance.' - Jean Graham-Jones, Professor in Theatre, City University of New York, USA

'This is cutting-edge work that provides up-to-the-minute models for those who are continually searching for work that will engage their imaginations and provide springboards for their own thinking.' - Barbara Hodgdon, University of Michigan, USA

'Performance and the City opens out a whole new area of