David Calder
Biographic Data
| ID | 1709820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Calder |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Calder |
| SIGNATURE | CALDER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | David Calder is a Fulbright Fellow and a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama (IPTD) at Northwestern University. His dissertation examines how street theatre companies and former factory workers negotiate deindustrialization and redevelopment in contemporary France. He has contributed essays on French theatre to the anthologies Shakespeare Beyond English: A Global Experiment (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and A History of Collective Creation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).... |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3367-9238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Queer Street Scenes
How might we think queerly about the politics of performance in public space? Inspired by ‘queer’ as a straying from the straight-and-narrow and by the street as a site of chance meetings and awkward run-ins, I stage in this essay an encounter between two different approaches to thinking the politics of performance in public space. The first approach follows a familiar path: Bertolt Brecht's ‘street scene’ and Walter Benjamin's account of epic th…
Performing Architectures
Reviewed by: Performing Architectures: Projects, Practices, Pedagogies ed. by Andrew Filmer and Juliet Rufford David Calder PERFORMING ARCHITECTURES: PROJECTS, PRACTICES, PEDAGOGIES. Edited by Andrew Filmer and Juliet Rufford. Methuen Drama Engage series. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2018; pp. 256. Performing Architectures stages a productive encounter between two disciplines fundamentally concerned with the assembly of bodies and the struct…
CV Théâtre
Making Space for a Creative Economy
The street theatre company La Machine has converted the derelict shipyards of Nantes into a cultural destination for an aspiring creative city. The discursive and embodied reconfiguration of the shipyards as both public space and workspace reveals the complex labor fueling creative economies
Le Festival Ouverture (review)
Kill the Old Torture Their Young (review)
Reviewed by: Kill the Old Torture Their Young David Calder Kill the Old Torture Their Young. By David Harrower. Directed by Kathryn Walsh. Steep Theatre, Chicago. 2 October 2009. The audience entered Steep Theatre’s intimate black-box space to discover, on an alley stage between two facing groups of seating, a sparse collection of tables and chairs set on dull, distressed, gray platforms amid bare metal frames. The only noticeable color in Dan St…
Laughing Matters
Reviewed by: Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France David Calder Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France. By Sara Beam. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007; pp. xi + 268. $57.50 cloth. Sara Beam’s Laughing Matters convincingly and productively refines our understanding of the relationship between the comic theatre and political culture of early modern France. Starting from the premise that “la…
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Laughing Matters
Reviewed by: Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France David Calder Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France. By Sara Beam. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007; pp. xi + 268. $57.50 cloth. Sara Beam’s Laughing Matters convincingly and productively refines our understanding of the relationship between the comic theatre and political culture of early modern France. Starting from the premise that “la…
Kill the Old Torture Their Young (review)
Reviewed by: Kill the Old Torture Their Young David Calder Kill the Old Torture Their Young. By David Harrower. Directed by Kathryn Walsh. Steep Theatre, Chicago. 2 October 2009. The audience entered Steep Theatre’s intimate black-box space to discover, on an alley stage between two facing groups of seating, a sparse collection of tables and chairs set on dull, distressed, gray platforms amid bare metal frames. The only noticeable color in Dan St…
Le Festival Ouverture (review)
Making Space for a Creative Economy
The street theatre company La Machine has converted the derelict shipyards of Nantes into a cultural destination for an aspiring creative city. The discursive and embodied reconfiguration of the shipyards as both public space and workspace reveals the complex labor fueling creative economies
CV Théâtre
Performing Architectures
Reviewed by: Performing Architectures: Projects, Practices, Pedagogies ed. by Andrew Filmer and Juliet Rufford David Calder PERFORMING ARCHITECTURES: PROJECTS, PRACTICES, PEDAGOGIES. Edited by Andrew Filmer and Juliet Rufford. Methuen Drama Engage series. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2018; pp. 256. Performing Architectures stages a productive encounter between two disciplines fundamentally concerned with the assembly of bodies and the struct…
Queer Street Scenes
How might we think queerly about the politics of performance in public space? Inspired by ‘queer’ as a straying from the straight-and-narrow and by the street as a site of chance meetings and awkward run-ins, I stage in this essay an encounter between two different approaches to thinking the politics of performance in public space. The first approach follows a familiar path: Bertolt Brecht's ‘street scene’ and Walter Benjamin's account of epic th…
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