Theatre & Globalization

by Dan Rebellato and Mark Ravenhill

What is globalization? What role is there for the theatre in a globalizing world?

This original and provocative book explores the contribution that theatre has made to our slowly evolving consciousness of our world as a whole. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023021830X
• ISBN13: 9780230218307
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.3" x 6.8"