Performance and Value: The Work of Theatre in Karl Marx's Critique of Political Economy.

That theatre is a place of work seems beyond debate. But what kind of workplace is it? And under what conditions does theatre conform to a capitalist production process? At first glance these questions may seem obviously, even inextricably, linked; but investigating theatre as somewhere people go to work is a far different enterprise than specifying its economic connection to capital. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]