TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aragay,Mireia
AU  - Botham,Paola
AU  - Prado-Pérez,José Ramón
TI  - World Political Theatre and Performance: Theories, Histories, Practices
T2  - Themes in Theatre Series
SN  - 9789004430990
AV  - PN2100.5 .W67 2020 
U1  - 792.09 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Theater-History
KW  - Theater-Production and direction
KW  - Theater-Political aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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