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In place of a show: what happens inside theatres when nothing is happening

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posted on 2023-06-09, 07:35 authored by Augusto CorrieriAugusto Corrieri
In Place of a Show is a singular account of four theatre buildings from around the world: theatres stripped of their primary purpose, lying empty, preserved as museums, or demolished. Playfully combining first-person narratives, scholarly research and visual documents, Augusto Corrieri explores the material and imaginative potentials of these places, charting interconnections between humans, birds, vegetation, and the beguiling animations of inanimate things, such as walls, curtains and seats. Across four chapters we learn of the uncanny dismantling and reconstitution of a German Baroque auditorium during the Second World War; the phantasmal remains of a demolished music hall in London’s East End; a Renaissance Italian theatre, fleetingly transformed into an aviary by the appearance of a swallow; and a lavish opera house emerging from the Amazon rainforest. In these pages we are invited to discover theatres as sites of anomalous encounters and surprising coincidences: places that might reveal the performative entanglement of human and nonhuman worlds.

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  • Published

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Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Pages

208.0

Place of publication

London, UK

ISBN

9781474256728

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  • English Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-08-09

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