02820nam 2200529 450 991081574940332120201023111955.01-4742-5675-91-4742-5673-21-4742-5674-010.5040/9781474256759(CKB)4330000000001518(MiAaPQ)EBC4435492(OCoLC)1201426448(CaBNVSL)mat74256759(CaBNVSL)9781474256759(MiAaPQ)EBC6160989(EXLCZ)99433000000000151820201023d2020 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierIn place of a show what happens inside theatres when nothing is happening /.Augusto CorrieriLondon, England :Bloomsbury UK,2020.London, England :Bloomsbury Publishing,20201 online resource (2,092 pages) illustrationsMethuen drama1-350-05444-5 1-4742-5672-4 Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and indexCuvilliés-theater: the lasting house -- Dalston theatre: progress report on a missing building -- Teatro olimpico: the avian theatre -- Teatro Amazonas: 'the opera house in the jungle'In Place of a Show is a compelling account of Western theatre buildings in the 21st century: 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.TheatersReconstructionTheatre studiesbicsscTheatersReconstruction.Theatre studies725.822Corrieri Augusto1704123NCaBNVSLCaBNVSLBOOK9910815749403321In place of a show4089885UNINA