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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Staging strangers
    sub title: theatre and global ethics
  name:
    name part: Freeman, Barry
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: quc
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxi, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Staging Strangers: Theatre and Global Ethics is a study of cultural difference in contemporary Canadian theater. Theatre in Canada has long been a forum for cultural communities to celebrate their traditions, but it has now emerged as a forum for staging stories that stretch beyond local and national communities. This book considers the new demand this global shift is placing on theater's narratives and strategies and asks how might theatre more meaningfully and ethically stage strangers? Combining archival research and performance analysis to discuss a set of performances mainly in Toronto, Staging Strangers offers a fresh look how theatre can be an important site of cultural encounter in a global age. Because the examples are mainly drawn from Toronto, the book is also a study of how cultural difference is realized in an emblematic "global city." The book adopts the guiding metaphor of "the stranger" to discuss the many ways cultural difference is made to appear-or disappear-onstage. Equally, the book considers the many ways the stranger on stage may be fetishized or domesticated, marked for assimilation or made an object of fear. It argues that a theater that only valorizes individual, cultural "self-realization" and concretizes cultural difference may at times also erect barriers to meaningful ethical engagement with strangers. More than a descriptive text about a shift toward the global, the book offers a vision of theatre that contributes meaningfully to global ethics, that is, a sense of ethical esponsibility to global issues and distant strangers.
  note: Barry Freeman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn---
  subject:
    topic: Theater and globalization
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Theater and internationalism
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Multiculturalism in the theater
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Theater and society
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Intercultural communication in the performing arts
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Race in the theater
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Ethnicity in the theater
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    geographic: Canada
  classification: PN2301 .F74 2017
  classification: 792.01/3
  identifier: 0773549528
  identifier: 9780773549524
  identifier: 9780773549517
  identifier: 077354951X
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 161124
    record change date: 20170926113431.0
    record identifier: in00003849836
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng