Working in the wings : new perspectives on theatre history and labor / edited by Elizabeth A. Osborne, Christine Woodworth.

Theatre has long been an art form of subterfuge and concealment. Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor, edited by Elizabeth A. Osborne and Christine Woodworth, brings attention to what goes on behind the scenes, challenging, and revising our understanding of work, theat...

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Other Authors: Woodworth, Christine (Editor), Osborne, Elizabeth A., 1977- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2015.
©2015
Series:Theater in the Americas.
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505 0 |a Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Table -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Work of Play in Performance -- Part One -- Working Conditions -- 1. Driving Race Work: The UAW, Detroit, and Discrimination for Everybody! -- 2. Working Together: The Partnership of Les Waters and Annie Smart -- 3. Advertising and the Commercial Spirit: Cataloging Nineteenth-Century Scenic Studio Practices -- 4. Don't Quit Your Day Job: Situating Extratheatrical Employment in the Performance Archive -- Part Two -- Inscription, Erasure, and Recovery: Palimpsests of Labor -- 5. Retooling the Kitchen Sink: Representing Domestic Labor in American Performance after 1963 -- 6. Beaten, Battered, and Brawny: American Variety Entertainers and the Working-Class Body -- 7. Hidden in Plain Sight: Recovering the Federal Theatre Project's Caravan Theatre -- 8. African American Waiters and Cakewalk Contests in Florida East Coast Resorts of the Gilded Age -- Part Three -- Myth, Memory, and Manifestation: The Work of the Public Mind -- 9. Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon and the Work of Republicanism -- 10. Myth Made Manifest: Labor, Landscape, and the First Washington Theatre -- 11. Labor, Theatre, and the Dream of the White City -- Part Four -- The Creative Work / The Work of Creation -- 12. Blue-Collar Bard: Recalling Shakespeare through the Rhetoric of Labor -- 13. Songs of Salaried Warriors: Copyright, Intellectual Property, and John Philip Sousa's The Free Lance -- 14. Working on a Masterpiece: Rinde Eckert's And God Created Great Whales -- Conclusion: Waiting in the Wings-Work -- Contributors -- Index. 
520 |a Theatre has long been an art form of subterfuge and concealment. Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor, edited by Elizabeth A. Osborne and Christine Woodworth, brings attention to what goes on behind the scenes, challenging, and revising our understanding of work, theatre, and history. Essays consider a range of historic moments and geographic locations-from African Americans' performance of the cakewalk in Florida's resort hotels during the Gilded Age to the UAW Union Theatre and striking automobile workers in post-World War II Detroit, to the struggle in the latter part of the twentieth century to finish an adaptation of Moby Dick for the stage before the memory of creator Rinde Eckert failed. Contributors incorporate methodologies and theories from fields as diverse as theatre history, work studies, legal studies, economics, and literature and draw on traditional archival materials, including performance texts and architectural structures, as well as less tangible material traces of stagecraft. Working in the Wings looks at the ways in which workers' identities are shaped, influenced, and dictated by what they do; the traces left behind by workers whose contributions have been overwritten; the intersections between the sometimes repetitive and sometimes destructive process of creation and the end result-the play or performance; and the ways in which theatre affects the popular imagination. This collected volume draws attention to the significance of work in the theatre, encouraging a fresh examination of this important subject in the history of the theatre and beyond. 
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