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Subject(s)

• Theater—History [Browse]
• Theater—Production and direction [Browse]
• Theater—Political aspects [Browse]

Editor

• Aragay, Mireia [Browse]
• Botham, Paola [Browse]
• Prado-Pérez, José Ramón [Browse]

Series

• Themes in Theatre ; 11. [More in this series]
• Themes in theatre: collective approaches to theatre and performance ; Volume 11

Summary note

World Political Theatre and Performance: Theories, Histories, Practices is the second collection of essays to emerge from the Political Performances Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from multiple locations, the book analyses a range of examples – historical and contemporary – of counter-hegemonic theatre and performance. Part 1 offers a diachronic view of the relationship between activism and performance; Part 2 focuses on the changing nature of what constitutes ‘political theatre’ today. Case studies from Finland to India and from Chile to China are framed by section introductions that underline both commonalities and tensions, while the general introduction reflects on what a radical practice can look like in the face of global neoliberalism. Contributors: Julia Boll, Paola Botham, Marco Galea, Aneta Głowacka, Pujya Ghosh, Camila González Ortiz, Bérénice Hamidi-Kim, Fatine Bahar Karlıdağ, Madli Pesti, José Ramon Prado-Pérez, Trish Reid, Mikko-Olavi Seppälä, Andy Smith, Evi Stamatiou, Wei Zheyu.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• General Introduction Trish Reid Activist Theatres/Performances Past and Present
• Activist Theatres/Performances, Past and Present: An Introduction José Ramón Prado-Pérez
• Political Activism or Handling Trauma? The Civil War Staged in Workers’ Theatres in 1920s Finland Mikko-Olavi Seppälä
• From Revolution to Dissent: a Case Study of the Changing Role of Theatre and Activism in Bengal Pujya Ghosh
• Who Gets to Represent the Past and Why Should They Bother? Maltese Political Theatre in the 1980s Marco Galea
• A Film-Set Activism: Political Dimensions of a Labor Day Performance Fatine Bahar Karlıdağ
• Making the Audience Cry: Witnessing Violence and the Ethics of Compelled Empathy Julia Boll
• Stepping Forward: an Exploration of Devised Theatre’s Democratic Designs in an Actor-Training Setting Evi Stamatiou Contemporary (Debates on) Political Theatre
• Contemporary (Debates on) Political Theatre: An Introduction Paola Botham
• The Politics of Theatre in France Today Bérénice Hamidi-Kim
• Returning to the ‘Plebeian’ Roots of Comedy: Contemporary Political Theatre in Poland Aneta Głowacka
• Theatre NO99’s Savisaar: an Estonian Political Musical for the Twenty-First Century Madli Pesti
• Theatre and Democracy in Chile: La Re-sentida’s La imaginación del futuro, or the Failure of Utopias Camila González Ortiz
• The Touring Grass Stage: Staging the Site-Specific Dilemma of Glocalization in Hypermodern China Wei Zheyu
• Meeting in the Theatre to Think towards Social and Political Change Andy Smith
• Index.

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ISBN

90-04-43099-7

Doi

• 10.1163/9789004430990

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