Theatre Across Oceans: Mediators of Transatlantic Exchange, 18901925 [Hardcover]

Theatre Across Oceans: Mediators Of Transatlantic Exchange allows the reader to enter and understand the infrastructural 'backstage area' of global cultural mobility during the years between 1890 and 1925. Located within the research fields of global history and theory, the geographical focus of the book is a transatlantic one, based on the active exchange in this phase between North and South America and Europe. Emanating from a rich body of archival material, the study argues that this exchange was essentially facilitated and controlled by professional theatrical mediators (agents, brokers), who have not been sufficiently researched within theatre or historical studies. The low visibility of mediators in the scientific research is in diametrical contrast to the enormous power that they possessed in the period dealt with in this book. 

Chapter 1. Meandering (Theatre) Histories.- Chapter 2. Transfer, Transmission, Translation  of Countries, Oceans, News.- Chapter 3. Agencies ? Backstage, Bookings, Bureaucracy.- Chapter 4. Transatlantic Mediators of Theatre.- Chapter 5. Multifurcations: The Course and Decline of Transatlantic Theatre Flows during the First World War.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.

Nic Leonhardt is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at LMU Munich. Her research focuses on theatre history of the nineteenth and twentieth century and is strongly interdisciplinary and transnational in approach. Since 2016 she has been the senior researcher and associate director of the ERC (European Research Council) project Developing Theatre at LMU Munich, as well as director of the Centre for Global Theatre History.