Performance and the City

Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? This book, now in paperback, queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma.

D.J. Hopkins is Head of Theatre Studies in the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University, USA. He is the author of City/Stage/Globe: Performance and Space in Shakespeare's London. Shelley Orr teaches in the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University, USA. She heads the dramaturgy area at SDSU and is past president of the international association Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). Kim Solga is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She is the author of Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Preface; S.Bennett
Introduction: City/Text/Performance; K.Solga with D.J.Hopkins & S.Orr
PART I: PEDESTRIANISMS, OR REMEMBERING THE CITY
Pedestrianisms or Remembering the City: Introduction; D.J.Hopkins
Ways to Walk New York After 9/11; M.Carlson
Memory/Memorial/Performance: Lower Manhattan, 1776 / 2001; D.J.Hopkins & S.Orr
Patricide and the Passerby; R.Schneider
PART II: URBAN PERFORMANCE AND CULTURAL POLICY
Urban Performance and Cultural Policy: Introduction; K.Solga
Multicultural Text, Intercultural Performance: The Performance Ecology of Contemporary Toronto; R.Knowles
Mission Accomplished: Broadway, 9/11, and the Republican National Convention; R.A.Rugg
Performing the Civic Transnational: Cultural Production, Governance, and Citizenship in Contemporary London; M.McKinnie
PART III: PERFORMING (FOR) ONE ANOTHER: CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITIES
Performing (for) One Another: Introduction; S.Orr
Surviving the City: Press Agents, Publicity Stunts, and the Spectacle of the Urban Female Body; M.Schweitzer
Dress Suits to Hire and the Landscape of Queer Urbanity; K.Solga
Global Exposures: Blur Street and Interurban Self-Portraiture (a photo essay); Curated by K.Irwin, R.Viader Knowles & L.Levin
PART IV: AT THE CITY LIMITS
At the City Limits: Introduction; K.Solga
Staging the Imagined City in Australian Theatre; J.Tompkins
Agency and Complicity in 'A Special Civic Room': London's Tate Modern Turbine Hall; J.Harvie
Staging a Vanished Community: Daniel Libeskind's Scenography in the Berlin Jewish Museum; K.van den Berg
13 Can the City Speak? Site-Specific Art After Poststructuralism; L.Levin
Afterword; B.Hodgdon
Index