Shakespeare and Community Performance

This book explores how productions of Shakespearean plays create meaning in specific communities, with special attention to issues of access, adaptation, and activism. Instead of focusing on large professional companies, it analyzes performances put on by community theatres and grassroots companies, and in applied drama projects. It looks at Shakespearean productions created by marginalized populations in Greater London, Harlem, and Los Angeles, a Hamlet staged in the remote Faroe Islands, and eco-theatre made in California's Yosemite National Park. The book investigates why different communities perform Shakespeare, and what challenges, opportunities, and triumphs accompany the processes of theatrical production for both the artists and the communities in which they are embedded.

Author: Katherine Steele Brokaw
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/09/2023
Series: Shakespeare in Practice
Pages: 278
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9783031332661
2023 Edition