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From the Theater to the PlazaSpectacle, Protest, and Urban Space in Twenty-First-Century Madrid |
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Theatre, urban development, and the enduring struggle over the right to the city.
Lavapiés - diverse, multicultural, and one of Madrid’s most iconic neighbourhoods - has emerged as a locus of resistance movements and of cultural flourishing. Poised at the intersection of theatre studies and cultural geography, this innovative study sketches its physical and imaginary contours.
In From the Theater to the Plaza Matthew Feinberg guides readers on a journey through the development of the theatre, as both art and space, in Lavapiés. Offering a detailed analysis of dramatic texts and productions, performance spaces, urban planning documents, and the cultural activities of squatters, Feinberg sheds new light on the lead-up to Spain’s economic crisis and the emergence in 2011 of the 15-M anti-austerity protest movement. The result is a multidisciplinary account of how the spectacle of the contemporary city connects local, municipal, and global geographies.
By linking the neighbourhood’s unique role as both a site and a subject of Madrid’s theatre tradition with its contemporary struggles over gentrification, From the Theater to the Plaza offers new approaches for understanding how culture and capital produce the twenty-first-century city.
In From the Theater to the Plaza Matthew Feinberg guides readers on a journey through the development of the theatre, as both art and space, in Lavapiés. Offering a detailed analysis of dramatic texts and productions, performance spaces, urban planning documents, and the cultural activities of squatters, Feinberg sheds new light on the lead-up to Spain’s economic crisis and the emergence in 2011 of the 15-M anti-austerity protest movement. The result is a multidisciplinary account of how the spectacle of the contemporary city connects local, municipal, and global geographies.
By linking the neighbourhood’s unique role as both a site and a subject of Madrid’s theatre tradition with its contemporary struggles over gentrification, From the Theater to the Plaza offers new approaches for understanding how culture and capital produce the twenty-first-century city.
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Part of the McGill-Queen's Iberian and Latin American Cultures Series (number 4 in series)
296 Pages, 6 x 9
19 photos, 2 maps, 2 tables
ISBN 9780228010692
May 2022
Formats: Paperback, Cloth, eBook
“From the Theater to the Plaza provides an indispensable look into the dialogic relationship between urban space and theater. Matthew Feinberg skillfully moves across three scales of experience (the local, the municipal, and the global) to offer a compelling reading of the urban history of both Madrid and Lavapiés.” Stephen Vilaseca, Northern Illinois University and author of Anarchist Socialism in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: A Ricardo Mella Anthology
“Using evidence found in the streets and on the stage, Feinberg finds Lavapiés to be a space for theater and a theatrical space, represented, representing, lived, practiced, bought, sold, and contested. Beautifully written, From the Theater to the Plaza is a thoroughly enjoyable and insightful read.” Nathan Richardson, University of Texas at San Antonio and author of Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, 1953-2003
“From the Theater to the Plaza delves into the history of Madrid and its cultural production. With a keen focus on the Lavapiés district [Feinberg] masterfully unveils the contingent and overlapping nature of the neighborhood and the metropolis [and] offers readers a comprehensive history of the cultural conflicts that have shaped the life and identity of this neighborhood and its inhabitants.” Hispanófila
“Using evidence found in the streets and on the stage, Feinberg finds Lavapiés to be a space for theater and a theatrical space, represented, representing, lived, practiced, bought, sold, and contested. Beautifully written, From the Theater to the Plaza is a thoroughly enjoyable and insightful read.” Nathan Richardson, University of Texas at San Antonio and author of Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, 1953-2003
“From the Theater to the Plaza delves into the history of Madrid and its cultural production. With a keen focus on the Lavapiés district [Feinberg] masterfully unveils the contingent and overlapping nature of the neighborhood and the metropolis [and] offers readers a comprehensive history of the cultural conflicts that have shaped the life and identity of this neighborhood and its inhabitants.” Hispanófila
Matthew I. Feinberg is assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Baldwin Wallace University.
Figures and Tables | ix
Acknowledgments | xi
Introduction: The “Kind of Problem a City Is” | 3
1 The Stage of a Nation:The Urban Theater of Madrid | 25
2 From Lavapiés to Madrid:The Populist Myth of “Lo Castizo” | 63
3 The Global Stage of Madrid:The Teatro Valle-Inclán and the Rehabilitation of Lavapiés | 96
4 Resisting the Spectacle: The Practiced City of the Laboratorio 03 | 130
5 The Representational Space of the City:Lavapiés in the Theater | 167
Aftermath: Restaging Spanish Politics in the Theater and the Streets | 202
Notes | 213
Bibliography | 251
Index | 275
Acknowledgments | xi
Introduction: The “Kind of Problem a City Is” | 3
1 The Stage of a Nation:The Urban Theater of Madrid | 25
2 From Lavapiés to Madrid:The Populist Myth of “Lo Castizo” | 63
3 The Global Stage of Madrid:The Teatro Valle-Inclán and the Rehabilitation of Lavapiés | 96
4 Resisting the Spectacle: The Practiced City of the Laboratorio 03 | 130
5 The Representational Space of the City:Lavapiés in the Theater | 167
Aftermath: Restaging Spanish Politics in the Theater and the Streets | 202
Notes | 213
Bibliography | 251
Index | 275
