World Political Theatre and Performance : Theories, Histories, Practices.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- General Introduction -- Part 1: Activist Theatres/Performances Past and Present -- Activist Theatres/Performances Past and Present -- Political Activism or Handling Trauma? The Civil War Staged in Workers' Theatres in 1920s Finland -- From Revolution to Dissent: A Case Study of the Changing Role of Theatre and Activism in Bengal -- Who Gets to Represent the Past and Why Should They Bother? Maltese Political Theatre in the 1980s -- A Film-Set Activism: Political Dimensions of a Labor Day Performance -- Making the Audience Cry: Witnessing Violence and the Ethics of Compelled Empathy -- Stepping Forward: An Exploration of Devised Theatre's Democratic Designs in an Actor-Training Setting -- Part 2: Contemporary (Debates on) Political Theatre -- Contemporary (Debates on) Political Theatre -- The Politics of Theatre in France Today -- Returning to the `Plebeian' Roots of Comedy: Contemporary Political Theatre in Poland -- Theatre NO99's Savisaar: An Estonian Political Musical for the Twenty-First Century -- Theatre and Democracy in Chile: La Re-sentida's La imaginación del futuro, or the Failure of Utopias -- The Touring Grass Stage: Staging the Site-Specific Dilemma of Glocalization in Hypermodern China -- Meeting in the Theatre to Think towards Social and Political Change -- Index.

World Political Theatre and Performance brings together scholars and practitioners from multiple locations to analyse counter-hegemonic theatre and performance. International case studies are framed by a common reflection on the meaning of radical practice in the face of global neoliberalism.

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