Outdoor performance [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: [Tuscaloosa, Ala.], : Southeastern Theatre Conference and the University of Alabama Press, [2009]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (137 p.)
• Disciplina: 792/.05; 808.2
• Soggetto topico: Theater, Open-air; Theater
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; Theatre Symposium Keynote Roundtable: Saturday, April 12, 2008; "No Roof Except the Sky": The Rise and Fall of Airdomes in American Popular Entertainment; Rail-izing the Nation along Lake Michigan: The Wheels-a-Rolling Pageant; Mormon Pageants as American Historical Performance; "Look at the Moon": Hunter Hills Theatre; Outdoor Drama in the Smokies; The Promise of Democracy: Imagining National Community in Paul Green's The Lost Colony; The Revitalization of Space: Freestyle Parkour and Its Audiences; Symposium Response; Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: Outdoor drama takes many forms: ancient Greek theatre, open-air performances of Shakespeare at summer festivals, and re-enactments of landmark historical events. The essays gathered in ""Outdoor Performance,"" Volume 17 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium, address outdoor theatre's many manifestations, including the historical and non-traditional. Among other subjects, these essays explore the rise of ""airdomes"" as performance spaces in the American Midwest in the first half of the 20th century; the civic-religious pageants staged by certain Mormon congregations; Whe
• Titolo autorizzato: Outdoor performance
• ISBN: 0-8173-8297-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465263803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Theatre symposium ; ; v. 17.