Toward a Rhetoric of Sociospatial Theatre
José Rivera's Marisol
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4923017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Chris Westgate (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-37 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tj.2007.0076 |
| OpenAlex | W1966065103 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
José Rivera's Marisol offers social and spatial criticism of Ed Koch's New York City, in particular the campaign against the homeless during the 1980s. In so doing, the play undertakes what functions as a Brechtian defamiliarization of space for audiences to demonstrate how the urban landscape of New York City was central to the battle for social justice; and, more generally, to demonstrate how the social and the spatial are thoroughly imbricated. This essay takes Marisol as a starting point for theorizing a discourse in theatre studies to consider sociospatial concerns in dramaturgy and performance, a discourse that makes fruitful connections among cultural and critical geography, urban theory, and semiotics
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Battle · Criticism · Dramaturgy · Linguistics · Literature · Performance art · Rhetoric · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |