Department of English Publications
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2012
Volume
33
Issue
1
Journal
Theatre Research in Canada
First Page
109
Last Page
111
Abstract
Peter Dickinson’s World Stages, Local Audiences is a book I really, really wanted to like. It takes significant risks in style and structure. It is personal and invested. It is compelled by the same kinds of ques- tions—about political performance, social justice, community affect, and cultural change—that motivate a great deal of my own work. It is relentlessly eclectic in its choice of primary sources, examining everything from the Beijing and Vancouver Olympics to the drama of Tony Kushner to the media spectacles of professional soccer. It is a scholarly nomadology (136-175)—a term I suspect Dickinson won’t mind me applying here—as well as a book with real heart. And yet, for all that, it doesn’t really work.
Publication Status
1
Notes
Book review of World Stages, Local Audiences: Essays on Performance, Place, and Politics by Peter Dickinson accessible online at https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/TRIC/article/view/20310/23431