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Staging Strangers

Theatre and Global Ethics

by (author) Barry Freeman

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2017
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773549517
    Publish Date
    Feb 2017
    List Price
    $100.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773549524
    Publish Date
    Feb 2017
    List Price
    $37.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773549548
    Publish Date
    Mar 2017
    List Price
    $100.00

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Description

Twenty-first-century media and political discourse sometimes makes "strangers" - refugees, immigrants, minorities - the scapegoats for social and economic disorder. In this heated climate, theatre has the potential to promote greater compassion and empathy for outsiders.

A study of cultural difference in contemporary Canadian theatre, Staging Strangers considers how theatre facilitates an understanding of distant places and issues. Theatre in Canada, and especially in Toronto, has long been a place for communities to celebrate their traditions, but it is now emerging as a forum for staging stories that stretch beyond the local and the national. Combining archival research and performance analysis, Barry Freeman analyzes the possibilities and hazards of representing strangers, and the many ways the stranger on stage may be fetishized or domesticated, marked for assimilation, or turned into an object of fear.

A fresh look at ways to cultivate ethical responsibility for global issues, Staging Strangers imagines a role for theatre in creating a more tolerant, caring, and cooperative world.

About the author

Barry Freeman is an assistant professor and director of theatre and performance studies in the Department of Art, Culture, and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

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