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Book SynopsisConsiders how performance, plays, and history affect the collective memory of a society and national identity, on and off stage
Trade ReviewThis important study not only sheds significant new light on the modern German stage, but has implications for the relationship between theatre and contemporary society around the world." —Marvin Carlson, CUNY Graduate Center
"Cornish skillfully examines the neo-documentary style of groups like Rimini Protokoll and the "hybridized" post-migrant theater. More than 60 pages of notes, bibliography, and index lend the book authority...Highly recommended." —
Choice Reviews"Cornish offers exemplary readings of important, recent productions. The book makes a significant contribution to German studies, where theater tends to get short shrift; and to theater studies, where scholars have been both intrigued and baffled by German directors' irreverent approach to classical texts and nationalist myth-making." —
German Studies Review"
Performing Unification is written clearly, is attentive to its reader...and avoids obscuring its findings in jargon. It provides a stimulating and accessible way into an otherwise dense and difficult topic and will reward the reader wishing to extend Cornish's findings. This study will be useful not just for researchers with an interest in theatre's relationship to history and memory but also for those looking for perspectives on aesthetic developments in German theatre in the last thirty years." —Modern Drama
"Matt Cornish has written a very good investigation into history and nation on the German stage after 1989 ... He arrives at some fascinating conclusions." —
The German Quarterly
