Criticising Capitalism in the City and on the Stage: The City Street Movement Occupy Wall Street and Tim Price’s Protest Song

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Christine Schwanecke
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Abstract Following the 2022 CDE conference’s concern regarding “how theatre and the city are productively embroiled and [. . .] how contemporary Anglophone theatre has redefined [. . .] [and blurred the] borders between centre and periphery, street and stage, performer and spectator” (Garson et al.), I will focus on Tim Price’s Protest Song, which was commissioned by the National Theatre and was staged there in December 2013. Setting the play in the streets of London in front of the iconic urban space of St Paul’s Cathedral, starring a homeless main character, and transgressing the boundaries between theatrical and actual spaces, Price arguably questions conventional urban and social binaries as well as economic and social hierarchies. With the help of experimental and critical strategies, he examines the city street movement Occupy Wall Street and its repercussions. The present article analyses these strategies and asks how they represent, perform, question, and assess urban hierarchies, city street activism, and the financial sector, as they are symbolised by the (urban and mental) spaces of London as capital and London as city of capital. I will furthermore look into how Price’s strategies reframe social inequality and turbo-capitalism as well as to what extent they redefine the borders between centre and periphery, street and stage, performer and spectator.
批判城市和舞台上的资本主义:“占领华尔街”运动和蒂姆·普莱斯的抗议歌曲
继2022年CDE会议关注“戏剧和城市如何富有生产力地卷入,以及当代英语剧院如何重新定义[并模糊了]中心与外围,街道与舞台,表演者与观众之间的边界”(Garson等人)之后,我将重点关注蒂姆·普雷斯的抗议之歌,这是由国家剧院委托并于2013年12月在那里上演的。在伦敦的街道上,在圣保罗大教堂的标志性城市空间前,由一个无家可归的主角主演,并超越了戏剧和实际空间之间的界限,Price可以说是对传统的城市和社会二元性以及经济和社会等级提出了质疑。在实验和批判策略的帮助下,他研究了城市街头运动“占领华尔街”及其影响。本文分析了这些策略,并询问它们是如何代表、执行、质疑和评估城市等级制度、城市街头行动主义和金融部门的,因为它们是由伦敦作为首都和伦敦作为首都的城市(城市和精神)空间所象征的。我将进一步探讨Price的策略如何重新定义社会不平等和涡轮资本主义,以及它们在多大程度上重新定义了中心与边缘、街道与舞台、表演者与观众之间的边界。
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