Evicted in—and from—Toronto: Walker's Beautiful City at Factory Theatre

[...] it best demonstrates how Walker's political concerns were distinctly spatialized at the time; second, the spatialized concerns evident in Beautiful City suggest the exigency of the shift from polemicism to politics: Maintaining Factory Theatre became a means of endorsing a future for how...

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Published in:	Comparative drama 2009-07, Vol.43 (2), p.221-245
Main Author:	Westgate, J. Chris
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1900-1999 1980s 1987 Anxiety Authors Beautiful City Beautiful City (East End Plays) Business operations Canadian drama Canadian history, 1984 Canadian literature Canadian theater Cities City politics Colleges & universities Condominiums Conflict Downtowns Drama Dramatists Dramaturgy English Literature Factories Factory Theatre Factory Theatre (Toronto) Gentrification Harvey, David Lefebvre, Henri (1901-1991) Mansions Ontario political drama Politics Portrayals Production and direction Rafts Real estate social class Social Justice and the City Theater Theater companies Theater history Theaters & cinemas Theatre Companies theatrical production Toronto Toronto Setting Twentieth Century urban life Urban space Walker, George F Walker, George F. (b.1947)
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Summary:	[...] it best demonstrates how Walker's political concerns were distinctly spatialized at the time; second, the spatialized concerns evident in Beautiful City suggest the exigency of the shift from polemicism to politics: Maintaining Factory Theatre became a means of endorsing a future for how Toronto should be constructed, organized, and inhabited. Because of Beautiful City, in other words, Factory Theatre potentially became a bulwark against the gentrification and growth transforming Toronto's "soul" denounced in Beautiful City.
ISSN:	0010-4078 1936-1637 1936-1637