Description
Learn how theatre and globalization have affected each other over the past century, and how to conduct your own research on global theatre histories.
What you will learn
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.
Theatre on the move: Migration, Mobility and Modernization
How we can relate migration and mobility to the dissemination of theatre.
Global Players: Actors, Managers and Agents
Actors, Managers, and Theatrical Agents; with a focus on the people who organized the global migration of theatre.
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.
