The Theatre Of Politics

Author : Peter Eckersall,Helena Grehan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351399111

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The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics by Peter Eckersall,Helena Grehan Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays, provocations, and interventions on the most important questions faced by today’s writers, critics, audiences, and theatre and performance makers. Featuring texts written by scholars and artists who are diversely situated (geographically, culturally, politically, and institutionally), its multiple perspectives broadly address the question "How can we be political now?" To respond to this question, Peter Eckersall and Helena Grehan have created eight galvanising themes as frameworks or rubrics to rethink the critical, creative, and activist perspectives on questions of politics and theatre. Each theme is linked to a set of guiding keywords: Post (post consensus, post-Brexit, post-Fukushima, post-neoliberalism, post-humanism, post-global financial crisis, post-acting, the real) Assembly (assemblage, disappearance, permission, community, citizen, protest, refugee) Gap (who is in and out, what can be seen/heard/funded/allowed) Institution (visibility/darkness, inclusion, rules) Machine (biodata, surveillance economy, mediatisation) Message (performance and conviction, didacticism, propaganda) End (suffering, stasis, collapse, entropy) Re. (reset, rescale, reanimate, reimagine, replay: how to bring complexity back into the public arena, how art can help to do this). These themes were developed in conversation with key thinkers and artists in the field, and the resulting texts engage with artistic works across a range of modes including traditional theatre, contemporary performance, public protest events, activism, and community and participatory theatre. Suitable for academics, performance makers, and students, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics explores questions of how to be political in the early 21st century, by exploring how theatre and performance might provoke, unsettle, reinforce, or productively destabilise the status quo.

Author : Joe Kelleher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230205239

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Theatre and Politics by Joe Kelleher Pdf

One of the first titles in this vibrant and eye-catching new series of short, sharp, shots for theatre students.

Author : M. Morgan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137370389

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Politics and Theatre in Twentieth-Century Europe by M. Morgan Pdf

This book explores the connection between politics and theatre by looking at the works and lives of Shaw, Brecht, Sartre, and Ionesco, providing a cultural history detailing the changing role of political theatre in twentieth-century Europe.

Author : Gabriella Giannachi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134272617

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The Politics of New Media Theatre by Gabriella Giannachi Pdf

The first book in the field to explore the links between theories of globalization and surveillance, bipower and biopolitics, performance and theatre, computer arts and politics, "The Politics of New Media Theatre" is an investigation into the political role played by the new media theatre. Gabriella Giannachi explores how new media arts constitute themselves as a radical political movement, and presents an analysis of both the role of virtuality in radical performance and politics in virtual and mixed reality practices. This outstanding new work offers an analysis of leading political, philosophical and artistic texts and artworks, and represents a milestone for anyone interested in new technologies, theatre and politics.

Author : Karen Jürs-Munby,Jerome Carroll,Steve Giles
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Baz Kershaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134932726

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The Politics of Performance by Baz Kershaw Pdf

Addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation of post-war alternative and community theatre. A detailed analysis of oppositional theatre as radical cultural practice.

Author : Ferdinand Mount
Publisher : Schocken Books Incorporated
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039047373

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The Theatre of Politics by Ferdinand Mount Pdf

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte,Benjamin Wihstutz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Rustom Bharucha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134873142

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Theatre and the World by Rustom Bharucha Pdf

In this passionate and controversial work, director and critic Rustom Bharucha presents the first major critique of intercultural theatre from a 'Third World' perspective. Bharucha questions the assumptions underlying the theatrical visions of some of the twentieth century's most prominent theatre practitioners and theorists, including Antonin Artaud, Jerzsy Grotowski, and Peter Brook. He contends that Indian theatre has been grossly mythologised and taken out of context by Western directors and critics. And he presents a detailed dramaturgical analysis of what he describes as an intracultural theatre project, providing an alternative vision of the possibilities of true cultural pluralism. Theatre and the World bravely challenges much of today's 'multicultural' theatre movement. It will be vital reading for anyone interested in the creation or discussion of a truly non-Eurocentric world theatre.

Author : Avra Sidiropoulou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1003046479

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Staging 21st Century Tragedies by Avra Sidiropoulou Pdf

"Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis is an international collection of essays by leading academics, artists, writers, and curators examining ways in which the global tragedies of our century are being negotiated in current theatre practice. In exploring the tragic in the fields of history and theory of theatre, the book approaches crisis through an understanding of the existential and political aspect of the tragic condition. Using an interdisciplinary perspective, it showcases theatre texts and productions that enter the public sphere, manifesting notably participatory, immersive, and documentary modes of expression to form a theatre of modern tragedy. The coexistence of scholarly essays with manifesto-like provocations, interviews, original plays, and diaries by theatre artists provides a rich and multifocal lens that allows readers to approach 21st century theatre through historical and critical study, text and performance analysis, and creative processes. Of special value is the global scope of the collection, embracing forms of crisis theatre in many geographically diverse regions of both the East and the West. Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis will be of use and interest to academics and students of political theatre, applied theatre, theatre history, and theatre theory"--

Author : Augusto Boal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134673711

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Legislative Theatre by Augusto Boal Pdf

Augusto Boal's reputation is now moving beyond the realms of theatre and drama therapy, bringing him to the attention of a wider public. Legislative Theatre is the latest and most remarkable stage in his work. 'Legislative Theatre' is an attempt to use Boal's method of 'Forum Theatre' within a political system to create a truer form of democracy. It is an extraordinary experiment in the potential of theatre to affect social change. At the heart of his method of Forum Theatre is the dual meaning of the verb 'to act': to perform and to take action. Forum Theatre invites members of the audience to take the stage and decide the outcome, becoming an integral part of the performance. As a politician in his native Rio de Janeiro, Boal used Forum Theatre to motivate the local populace in generating relevant legislation. In Legislative Theatre Boal creates new, theatrical, and truly revolutionary ways of involving everyone in the democratic process. This book includes: * a full explanation of the genesis and principles of Legislative Theatre * a description of the process in operation in Rio * Boal's essays, speeches and lectures on popular theatre, Paolo Freire, cultural activism, the point of playwrighting, and much else besides.

Author : Kailin Wright
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228003243

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Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre by Kailin Wright Pdf

In Canada, adaptation is a national mode of survival, but it is also a way to create radical change. Throughout history, Canadians have been inheritors and adaptors: of political systems, stories, and customs from the old world and the new. More than updating popular narratives, adaptation informs understandings of culture, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as individual experiences. In Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre Kailin Wright investigates adaptations that retell popular stories with a political purpose and examines how they acknowledge diverse realities and transform our past. Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre explores adaptations of Canadian history, Shakespeare, Greek mythologies, and Indigenous history by playwrights who identify as English-Canadian, African-Canadian, French-Canadian, French, Kuna Rappahannock, and Delaware from the Six Nations. Along with new considerations of the activist potential of popular Canadian theatre, this book outlines eight strategies that adaptors employ to challenge conceptions of what it means to be Indigenous, Black, queer, or female. Recent cancellations of theatre productions whose creators borrowed elements from minority cultures demonstrate the need for a distinction between political adaptation and cultural appropriation. Wright builds on Linda Hutcheon's definition of adaptation as repetition with difference and applies identification theory to illustrate how political adaptation at once underlines and undermines its canonical source. An exciting intervention in adaptation studies, Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre unsettles the dynamics of popular and political theatre and rethinks the ways performance can contribute to how one country defines itself.

Author : Augusto Boal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135127756

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Hamlet and the Baker's Son by Augusto Boal Pdf

Hamlet and the Baker's Son is the autobiography of Augusto Boal, inventor of the internationally renowned Forum Theatre system, and 'Theatre of the Oppressed' and author of Games for Actors and Non-Actors and Legislative Theatre. Continuing to travel the world giving workshops and inspiration to teachers, prisoners, actors and care-workers, Augusto Boal is a visionary as well as a product of his times - the Brazil of military dictatorship and artistic and social repression and was once imprisoned for his subversive activities. From his early days in Brazil's political theatre movement to his recent experiments with theatre as a democratic political process, Boal's story is a moving and memorable one. He has devised a unique way of using the stage to empower the disempowered, and taken his methods everywhere from the favelas of Rio to the rehearsal studios of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521648572

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Greek Theatre Performance by David Wiles Pdf

Specially written for students and enthusiasts, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre and cultural life.

Author : M. Morgan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137370389

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Politics and Theatre in Twentieth-Century Europe by M. Morgan Pdf

This book explores the connection between politics and theatre by looking at the works and lives of Shaw, Brecht, Sartre, and Ionesco, providing a cultural history detailing the changing role of political theatre in twentieth-century Europe.