What can artists learn from theatre scholars when it comes to performing historical works on stage today? What can theatre scholars learn from today’s artists when it comes to understanding the works and practices of the past? How is the experience of modern spectators affected by attending performances in historic theatres? And how, aesthetically, do we experience the reconstruction of productions from the remote past?
The essays in Performing the Eighteenth Century: Theatrical Discourses, Practices, and Artefacts (Edited by Magnus Tessing Schneider & Meike Wagner), try to answer these questions by initiating a dialogue between academic and artistic research. They reflect a desire to develop and expand the methods traditionally used by theatre scholars presenting a variety of angles on today’s performances in historic theatres and on today’s attempts to revive theatrical practices of the past.
Reviews
“I was delighted to read this collection concerning historically-informed theatre experiments, as this praxis-based theatre research is original and insightful and should be shared with the world.”
Leslie Ritchie, Queen’s University, Canada
“Exploring the very timely theme of contemporary performance of historical pieces in historical theatres, the present chapters are highly interesting and informative, well-written, and based on original, well executed research.
Although the focus is on eighteenth-century theatrical performance practice, the book opens up vistas beyond theatre: how we think about the cultural past, how we relate to the past in our own time.“
Anne Kauppala, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland
Stockholm Studies in Culture and Aesthetics
Performing the Eighteenth Century: Theatrical Discourses, Practices, and Artefacts is an edited volume of Stockholm Studies in Culture and Aesthetics, a peer-reviewed series of monographs and edited volumes published by Stockholm University Press.
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