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Theatre and Globalization
Course
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English
18 h
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- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
- Week 1 - Definitions, Methods, and Resources for Writing Global Theatre Histories
Introductions with definitions of "theatre" and "globalization"; conceptualizing 'global theatre histories'; overview of online resources for researching the history of theatre during the late 19th and 20th centuries. - Week 2 - Theatre on the move: Migration, Mobility and Modernization
How we can relate migration and mobility to the dissemination of theatre. - Week 3 - Global Players: Actors, Managers and Agents
Actors, Managers, and Theatrical Agents; with a focus on the people who organized the global migration of theatre. - Week 4 - Global Hubs and Local Theatres
Theatre Buildings as 'Cultural Hubs' and 'Contact Zones'; methodologies and concepts for approaching theatres as places where different people, languages, and cultures met and interacted. - Week 5 - East versus West: Cold War Rivaleries
Theatre and the Cold War; theatre as a site of the rivalry between East and West. - Week 6 - Festivalization, Megamusical and Theatrical Global Media
Festivals, Megamusicals, and Livestreaming; how contemporary types of theatre reflect globalization and new technologies.
Prerequisite
None
Instructors
Christopher Balme
Professor
Institut für Theaterwissenschaft / Department of Theatre Studies
Editor
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