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London & Florence Program
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London Performances/Performing London Spring
2009 |
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Constructed around diverse offerings within the London theatre season, this course will include classics, revivals and new plays in various venues, including West End houses, the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, regional, “fringe” and non-theatre spaces. Participants will examine the social, cultural and historical contexts of each play’s world, and how various theatrical forms work in contemporary British culture. We will also explore London as a place: both capital and “world city.” In this vibrantly complex, cosmopolitan, and contested urban center, participants will enrich their analysis of new intercultural plays by attending events created by the immigrant/international communities and cultures portrayed in these works. Participants will also explore “English traditions,” including a trial at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey), and bastions of invented/traditional performance like the Inns of Court and Houses of Parliament. In an extension of the theatrical metaphor into broader aspects of identity creation and everyday life, we will engage with such public events as performances, questioning how they are enacted, for whom, with what theatrical framing devices, and the cultural and political work they undertake. |
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