Erika Fischer-Lichte - Performance and the Politics of Space: Theatre and Topology

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Performance and the Politics of Space
Theatre and Topology
Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte and Benjamin Wihstutz

Theatre and Topology

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Performance and the politics of space: theatre and topology / edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte and Benjamin Wihstutz

p. cm. (Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies; no. 24)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. TheaterPhilosophy. I. Fischer-Lichte, Erika. II. Wihstutz, Benjamin, 1978

PN2039.P395 2012
792.01dc23
2012013785

ISBN13: 978-0-415-50968-8 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-09491-4 (ebk)

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BENJAMIN WIHSTUTZ

PART I
Placements and Boundaries

MARVIN CARLSON

JANETTE DILLON

LOREN KRUGER

MICHAEL MCKINNIE

GAY MCAULEY

CHRISTOPHER BALME

NICOLAS SALAZAR-SUTIL

PART II
Utopia and Heterotopia

LUDGER SCHWARTE

JULIANE REBENTISCH

PATRICK PRIMAVESI

BENJAMIN WIHSTUTZ

SUSAN HAEDICKE

PART III
Strategies of Spatial Appropriation

ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE

PHILIP URSPRUNG

KIRSTEN MAAR

JENS ROSELT

SHANNON JACKSON

Audience in a circle called halqa in Morocco theatre.Courtesy of Khalid Amine.

Obama's speech in Berlin, ddpimages.com.

Diagram: The royal thrones set below the judges' seats. Figure by author.

Burghley's sketch for the layout of the trial, British Library.

Official drawing of the trial, British Library.

Diagram: The royal thrones set above the judges' seats. Figure by author.

Larry Spivak of ILHS speaking at the Haymarket Monument in Chicago, courtesy of David Graver.

Alma Washington as Lucy Parsons, courtesy of David Graver.

National Theatre, South Bank, London, photograph by Michael McKinnie.

Exterior, the Stables Theatre, Sydney, courtesy of Andrew Filmer.

Nimrod Street floor plan.

Belvoir Street Theatre exterior, courtesy of Russell Emerson.

Belvoir Street Theatre floor plan.

Wharf faade, courtesy of Andrew Filmer.

Wharf 1 floor plan.

Beheaded prophets. Idomeneo directed by Hans Neuenfels. Photo credit: Mara Eggert.

Security measures at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, December 2006. Photo credit: www.ddpimaeges.com.

Poster of Purgatory in Ingolstadt. Photo credit: Volkstheater Mnchen.

Alfred Jarry's drawing of Pa Ubu, sporting the famous spiral on his chest. public domain.

Sebastian Trifft, Two theatre scenes, around 1800, courtesy of Goethe-Nationalmuseum Weimar.

Marat, What Became of Our Revolution? directed by Volker Lsch, Schauspielhaus Hamburg (2008), A.T. Schaefer.

Cruda, vuelta y vuelta, al punto, chamuscada by Rodrigo Garcia (2007), www.christianberthelot.com.

Cruda, vuelta y vuelta, al punto, chamuscada by Rodrigo Garcia (2007), www.christianberthelot.com.

Opera Paga, Entreprise de Dtournement: L'Appartement Cultivable, Chantier #4, Opra Pagai.

Opera Pagai, Entreprise de Dtournement, Chantier #6: La Maison sur l'Eau, Opra Pagai.

Circus Schumann, Berlin around 1900, courtesy of the Institute for Theatre Studies, Freie Universitt Berlin.

Max Reinhardt's King Oedipus, courtesy of the Institute for Theatre Studies, Freie Universitt Berlin. Photo: Zander and Labisch.

Gordon Matta-Clark, Fire Child, still, Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark.

Gordon Matta-Clark, Fresh Air Cart, Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark.

Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting, Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark.

Gordon Matta-Clark's index cards, exhibition display 2006, photograph by Philip Ursprung.

You Made Me a Monster, performance installation by William Forsythe. Photo: Marion Rossi, Dancer: Nicole Peisl, The Forsythe Company.