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Performing place, heritage and Henry V in Portsmouth historic dockyard

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Holdsworth, Nadine (2016) Performing place, heritage and Henry V in Portsmouth historic dockyard. Contemporary Theatre Review, 26 (2). pp. 196-210. doi:10.1080/10486801.2016.1144054 ISSN 1048-6801.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2016.1144054

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Abstract

This article focuses on a reading of an amateur Royal Navy Theatre Association (RNTA) production: Collingwood RSC’s open-air Henry V, which took place alongside the iconic HMS Victory housed in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. The production emerged as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Open Stages initiative and this article considers how the RNTA, and this production, became implicated in systems of cultural value implicit not only in Open Stages, but more specifically in the heritage re-development of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. It argues that this site’s promotion of maritime history, naval heritage and cultural tourism can be understood in relation to Laurajane Smith’s understanding of authorised heritage discourse and heritage as a cultural performance engaged in the construction of cultural identity, memory and place. After situating Portsmouth Historic Dockyard as a performative environment that stages narratives of nationhood and empire, it considers how Collingwood RSC’s Henry V engaged with and became explicitly dominated by these narratives. The article proposes that the insertion of the real in the form of the theatricalized heritage setting, serving navy personnel and the acting out of naval traditions provokes questions about how the blurring of the dramatic and the real, the past and present had a profound impact on the affective economies and ideological ramifications of the production.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain
N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater
P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422--Drama, Performance art--Social aspects, Docks--England--Portsmouth, Portsmouth (England), Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery
Journal or Publication Title: Contemporary Theatre Review
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 1048-6801
Official Date: 6 May 2016
Dates:
DateEvent
6 May 2016Published
6 May 2016Available
16 January 2016Accepted
Volume: 26
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 196-210
DOI: 10.1080/10486801.2016.1144054
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 16 March 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access: 6 December 2017
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council (Great Britain) (AHRC)

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