Performance And Politics In Popular Drama

Author : David Bradby,Louis James,Bernard Sharratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521285240

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Performance and Politics in Popular Drama by David Bradby,Louis James,Bernard Sharratt Pdf

Since the beginning of the nineteenth-century, many forms of theatre have been called 'popular', but in the twentieth-century the term 'popular drama' has taken on definite political overtones, often indicating a repudiation of 'commercial theatre'. Does this mean that political theatre is or tries to be more attractive to more people than commercial theatre? Does it conversely mean that commercial theatre has no political effects? The articles in this book were submitted as papers for a conference on the theme of 'popular' theatre, film and television. Contributions came from people with very different types of experience: from an ex-animal trainer to a lecturer in film studies; from playwrights, directors and actors to professional critics and academics. Each author focused on a particular problem of defining drama in performance, drawing together the conditions of performance, the types of audience and the political effects of the plays or films in question. The result was a series of fruitful connections and juxtapositions that shows the remarkable continuity of the problems raised in attempts to create a popular political drama.

Author : Louis James,David Bradby,Bernard Sharratt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
ISBN : LCCN:71312036

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Performance and Politics in Popular Drama by Louis James,David Bradby,Bernard Sharratt Pdf

Author : Sue-Ellen Case,Janelle G. Reinelt
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781587290343

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The Performance of Power by Sue-Ellen Case,Janelle G. Reinelt Pdf

Recently in the field of theatre studies there has been an increasing amount of debate and dissonance regarding the borders of its territory, its methodologies, subject matter, and scholarly perspectives. The nature of this debate could be termed "political" and, in fact, concerns "the performance of power"—the struggle over power relations embedded in texts, methodologies, and the academy itself. This striking new collection of nineteen divergent essays represents this performance of power and the way in which the recent convergence of new critical theories with historical studies has politicized the study of the theatre. Neither play text, performance, nor scholarship and teaching can safely reside any longer in the "free," politically neutral, self-signifying realm of the aesthetic. Politicizing theatrical discourse means that both the hermeneutics and the histories of theatre reveal the role of ideology and power dynamics. New strategies and concepts—and a vital new phase of awareness—appear in these illuminating essays. A variety of historical periods, from the Renaissance through the Victorian and up to the most contemporary work of the Wooster group, illustrate the ways in which contemporary strategies do not require contemporary texts and performances but can combine with historical methods and subjects to produce new theatrical discourse.

Author : C. Finburgh,C. Lavery,M. Shevtsova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230595439

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Jean Genet: Performance and Politics by C. Finburgh,C. Lavery,M. Shevtsova Pdf

This is the first book to explore the broad political significance of Genet's performance practice by focusing on his radical experiments, polemical subjects and formal innovations in theatre, film and dance. Its new approach brings together the diverse aspects of Genet's work through essays by international scholars and interviews.

Author : Elin Diamond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136165887

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Performance and Cultural Politics by Elin Diamond Pdf

Performance and Cultural Politics is a groundbreaking collection of essays which explore the historical and cultural territories of performance, written by the foremost scholars in the field. The essays, exploring performance art, theatre, music and dance, range from Oscar Wilde to Eric Clapton; from the Rose Theatre to U.S. Holocaust museums. The topic includes: * Sex Play: Stereotype, Pose and Dildo * Grave Performances: The Cultural Politics of Memory * Genealogies: Critical Performances * Identity Politics: Passing, Carnival and the Law In the concluding section, `Performer's Performance', performance artist Robbie McCauley offers the practitioner's perspective on performance studies. Interdisciplinary, thought-provoking and rich in new ideas, Performance and Cultural Politics is a landmark in the emerging field of performance studies.

Author : Laura Edmondson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253117052

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Performance and Politics in Tanzania by Laura Edmondson Pdf

In Performance and Politics in Tanzania, Laura Edmondson examines how politics, social values, and gender are expressed on stage. Now a disappearing tradition, Tanzanian popular theatre integrates comic sketches, acrobatics, melodrama, song, and dance to produce lively commentaries on what it means to be Tanzanian. These dynamic shows invite improvisation and spontaneous and raucous audience participation as they explore popular sentiments. Edmondson asserts that these performances overturn the boundary between official and popular art and offer a new way of thinking about African popular culture. She discusses how the blurring of state agendas and local desires presents a charged environment for the exploration of Tanzanian political and social realities: What is the meaning of democracy and who gets to define it? Who is in power, and how is power exposed or concealed? What is the role of tradition in a postsocialist state? How will the future of the nation be negotiated? This engaging book provides important insight into the complexity of popular forms of expression during a time of political and social change in East Africa.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789042026070

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Political Performances by Anonim Pdf

Preliminary Material -- Mapping Political Performances: A Note on the Structure of the Anthology /E.J. Westlake -- Performance as Sepulchre and Mousetrap: Global Encoding, Local Deciphering /Avraham Oz -- Witnesses in the Public Sphere: Bloody Sunday and the Redefinition of Political Theatre /Paola Botham -- Orality and the Ethics of Ownership in Community-Based Drama /David Grant -- The Théâtre du Soleil's Trajectory from “People's Theatre” to “Citizen Theatre:” Involvement or Renunciation? /Bérénice Hamidi-Kim -- Ways of Unseeing: Glass Wall on the Main Stage /Tal Itzhaki -- To Absent Friends: Ethics in the Field of Auto/Biography /Deirdre Heddon -- Reading the Blacks Through the 1956 Preface: Politics and Betrayal /Carl Lavery -- Barbarians and Babes: A Feminist Critique of a Postcolonial Persians /Sydney Cheek O'Donnell -- Performing Stereotypes at Home and Abroad /Tom Maguire -- The Comeback of Political Drama in Croatia: Or How to Kill a President by Miro Gavran /Sanja Nikčević -- Local Knowledges, Memories, and Community: From Oral History to Performance /David Watt -- Modalities of Israeli Political Theatre: Plonter, ARNA'S Children, and the Ruth Kanner Group /Shimon Levy -- Documenting the Invisible: Dramatizing the Algerian Civil War of the 1990S /Susan C. Haedicke -- The Erotic Politics of Critical Tits: Exhibitionism or Feminist Statement? /Wendy Clupper -- The Güegüence Effect: The National Character and the Nicaraguan Political Process /E.J. Westlake -- Do the Ends Justify the Means? Considering Homeless Lives as Propaganda and Product /Beverly Redman -- The Birabahn/Threlkeld Project: Place, History, Memory, Performance, and Coexistence /Kerrie Schaefer -- Non-Naturalistic Performance in Political Narrative Drama: Methodologies and Languages for Political Performance with Reference to the Rehearsal and Production of E to the Power 3--Education, Education, Education /Lloyd Peters -- Gay Muslims and Salty Meat Pies: The Limits of Performing Community /Sonja Arsham Kuftinec -- About the Contributors.

Author : Greg Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521563314

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The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama by Greg Walker Pdf

Analyses the role of drama in English and Scottish court politics during the sixteenth century.

Author : Eamonn Jordan,Eric Weitz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137585882

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The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance by Eamonn Jordan,Eric Weitz Pdf

This Handbook offers a multiform sweep of theoretical, historical, practical and personal glimpses into a landscape roughly characterised as contemporary Irish theatre and performance. Bringing together a spectrum of voices and sensibilities in each of its four sections — Histories, Close-ups, Interfaces, and Reflections — it casts its gaze back across the past sixty years or so to recall, analyse, and assess the recent legacy of theatre and performance on this island. While offering information, overviews and reflections of current thought across its chapters, this book will serve most handily as food for thought and a springboard for curiosity. Offering something different in its mix of themes and perspectives, so that previously unexamined surfaces might come to light individually and in conjunction with other essays, it is a wide-ranging and indispensable resource in Irish theatre studies.

Author : Peter Bailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521543487

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Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City by Peter Bailey Pdf

Bailey reconstructs the texture & meaning of popular pleasure in the Victorian entertainment industry and seeks to provide a study of the pub, music-hall, theatre and comic newspaper.

Author : Karen Jürs-Munby,Jerome Carroll,Steve Giles
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408185889

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Postdramatic Theatre and the Political by Karen Jürs-Munby,Jerome Carroll,Steve Giles Pdf

Is postdramatic theatre political and if so how? How does it relate to Brecht's ideas of political theatre, for example? How can we account for the relationship between aesthetics and politics in new forms of theatre, playwriting, and performance? The chapters in this book discuss crucial aspects of the issues raised by the postdramatic turn in theatre in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century: the status of the audience and modes of spectatorship in postdramatic theatre; the political claims of postdramatic theatre; postdramatic theatre's ongoing relationship with the dramatic tradition; its dialectical qualities, or its eschewing of the dialectic; questions of representation and the real in theatre; the role of bodies, perception, appearance and theatricality in postdramatic theatre; as well as subjectivity and agency in postdramatic theatre, dance and performance. Offering analyses of a wide range of international performance examples, scholars in this volume engage with Hans-Thies Lehmann's theoretical positions both affirmatively and critically, relating them to other approaches by thinkers ranging from early theorists such as Brecht, Adorno and Benjamin, to contemporary thinkers such as Fischer-Lichte, Rancière and others

Author : Kenneth Pickering
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781137109651

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Key Concepts in Drama and Performance by Kenneth Pickering Pdf

An invaluable companion which enables the reader to acquire and understand a vocabulary for discussion and critical thinking on all aspects of the subject. The clear explanations of the concepts support students in their practical and theoretical explorations of the subjects and offer insights for research and reflective writing.

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte,Benjamin Wihstutz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415509688

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Performance and the Politics of Space by Erika Fischer-Lichte,Benjamin Wihstutz Pdf

This collection asks what's at stake when a theatrical space is created and when a performance takes place: under what circumstances the topology of theatre becomes political. It visits a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, and of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts in theatre history and contemporary performance.

Author : Peter Yeandle,Katherine Newey,Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0719091691

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Politics, Performance and Popular Culture by Peter Yeandle,Katherine Newey,Jeffrey Richards Pdf

"This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. It works with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political. The book is organised into three parts in dialogue regarding specific approaches to popular performance and politics. Part I offers a series of conceptual studies using popular culture as an analytical category for social and political history. Part II explores the ways that performance represents and constructs contemporary ideologies of race, nation and empire. Part III investigates the performance techniques of specific politicians - including Robert Peel, Keir Hardie and Henry Hyndman - and analyses the performative elements of collective movements."

Author : Rebecca D'Monte
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408166017

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British Theatre and Performance 1900-1950 by Rebecca D'Monte Pdf

British theatre from 1900 to 1950 has been subject to radical re-evaluation with plays from the period setting theatres alight and gaining critical acclaim once again; this book explains why, presenting a comprehensive survey of the theatre and how it shaped the work that followed. Rebecca D'Monte examines how the emphasis upon the working class, 'angry' drama from the 1950s has led to the neglect of much of the century's earlier drama, positioning the book as part of the current debate about the relationship between war and culture, the middlebrow, and historiography. In a comprehensive survey of the period, the book considers: - the Edwardian theatre; - the theatre of the First World War, including propaganda and musicals; -the interwar years, the rise of commercial theatre and influence of Modernism; - the theatre of the Second World War and post-war period. Essays from leading scholars Penny Farfan, Steve Nicholson and Claire Cochrane give further critical perspectives on the period's theatre and demonstrate its relevance to the drama of today. For anyone studying 20th-century British Drama this will prove one of the foundational texts.