Building Utopia: Performance and the Fantasy of Urban Renewal in Contemporary Toronto

Levin, Laura; Solga, Kim

doi:10.1162/dram.2009.53.3.37

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September 01 2009

Building Utopia: Performance and the Fantasy of Urban Renewal in Contemporary Toronto

Laura Levin,

Laura Levin

Laura Levin is Assistant Professor of Theatre at York University. Her research, which focuses on performance, identity, and space, appears in several edited volumes, including Space and the Geographies of Theatre (Playwrights Canada, 2007) and Performance and the City (Palgrave, 2009). She is Associate Editor of the Canadian Theatre Review and Editor of a number of collections: an issue of Theatre Research in Canada on “Space and Subjectivity in Performance”; an issue of Canadian Theatre Review on “Performance Art”; Conversations Across the Border, with performance artist Guillermo GÓmez-Peña (Seagull Press, forthcoming); and Theatre in Toronto (Playwrights Canada Press, forthcoming).

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Kim Solga is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance and coeditor, with D.J. Hopkins and Shelley Orr, of Performance and the City, both from Palgrave (2009).

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Laura Levin

Laura Levin is Assistant Professor of Theatre at York University. Her research, which focuses on performance, identity, and space, appears in several edited volumes, including Space and the Geographies of Theatre (Playwrights Canada, 2007) and Performance and the City (Palgrave, 2009). She is Associate Editor of the Canadian Theatre Review and Editor of a number of collections: an issue of Theatre Research in Canada on “Space and Subjectivity in Performance”; an issue of Canadian Theatre Review on “Performance Art”; Conversations Across the Border, with performance artist Guillermo GÓmez-Peña (Seagull Press, forthcoming); and Theatre in Toronto (Playwrights Canada Press, forthcoming).

Kim Solga

Kim Solga is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance and coeditor, with D.J. Hopkins and Shelley Orr, of Performance and the City, both from Palgrave (2009).

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2009

TDR/The Drama Review (2009) 53 (3 (203)): 37–53.

https://doi.org/10.1162/dram.2009.53.3.37

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Toronto markets itself as a city in renewal, a “creative city” of the future full of arts and culture. Alongside the official pitch, a number of street-level underground initiatives reimagine Toronto's utopic future in a different way by means of site-specific performances.

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