Drama and Theatre in Urban Contexts Samuel C. Weaver Using a comparative politics and

Using a comparative politics and political economy perspective

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Drama and Theatre in Urban Contexts Samuel C. Weaver Using a comparative politics andUrban theatre can be described as theatre made with or by those whose lives are marked by the urban landscape and its social limits and possibilities. At the heart of this text lies the question of how theatre can illuminate the urban and how theatre is illuminated by the urban. The city, like a play, is a space where everything adopts multiple meanings. It is an objective thought and a subjective experience, a charged and symbolic thing, as well as a