World Stages, Local Audiences

World Stages, Local Audiences: Essays on Performance, Place and Politics, Peter Dickinson. Published by Manchester University Press, 2010. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 272 pages including index, bibliography and 24 pictures. Black cloth boards, silver spine titles. Very light shelf wear to jacket; volume pristine and unread. In World Stages, Dickinson suggests that the forms of intimacy and identification that… Read more about this item

Hardback. New. This book argues that local performance events offer a way to read the world, and an opportunity to remake that world, helping to foster a global political consciousness. Surveying a wide array of theatre, dance, performance and visual art, as well as sporting contests, marriage ceremonies human rights protests, even acts of extreme weather. -- .