Street Theatre and the Production of Postindustrial Space: Working Memories By David Calder. Theatre: Theory—Practice—Performance. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019; pp. x + 205, 21 illustrations. £80/$120 cloth.

Abstract

in temporary and permanent theatre institutions in post-Wall Berlin. Whereas it strongly disavows “the long-standing tradition of state-subsidized theater in Berlin,” it makes scant effort to disavow male dominance at the Berlin theatres (8). It also leaves the reader with a question: How have the burning issues of migration, citizenship, and nationalism impacted performing arts policies in post-Wall Berlin? It is understandable that Woolf does not address the question, however, because his primary focus is to explicate the complex relationship between performance and policy. Although he leaves this to other theatre and performance scholars for further exploration, Woolf makes a significant contribution to theatre studies, performance studies, German studies, and cultural studies.