Theatre Scandals : Social Dynamics of Turbulent Theatrical Events.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1: Introductions -- Chapter 1. General Introduction -- Chapter 2. Spreading Like Wildfire: the Genesis and Evolution of Theatre Scandals -- Chapter 3. Scandalous Theatrical Events: Concerns and Emotions -- Part 2: Scandals Starting during Theatrical Events -- Chapter 4. The Hamburg Theatre Scandal of 1801: Political, Economic and Aesthetic Conflicts on Stage -- Chapter 5. Burning the Bridge while Bridging the Gap: Riotous Pedagogy in ``The Plough and the Stars'' - Riot of 1926 -- Chapter 6. Shit, Idealism and Contingency: Terror in God's Theatre -- Part 3: Scandals Starting outside and around Theatrical Events -- Chapter 7. The Ejima-Ikushima Scandal -- Chapter 8. Scandal and Rebellion in the Theatrical Event: the Maltese Carnival of 1846 -- Chapter 9. Why Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Play Garbage, the City, and Death Could Not Be Performed in Germany -- Chapter 10. Swiss-Swiss Democracy: the Making of Scandal as Play and Counter Play -- Chapter 11. Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on the Israeli Stage Arousing Scandal: the Case of Return to Haifa -- Chapter 12. Mike Daisey's False Witness -- Part 4: Scandals and Beyond -- Chapter 13. Cleopatra - between Historical and Movie Scandals -- Chapter 14. Censorship as a Tool for the Prevention and Suspension of Scandals -- Chapter 15. The School for Scandal -- Index.

Theatre scandals may cause dynamic changes within cultural systems. The case studies in this volume present a wide cultural and chronological variety of such scandals, illustrating the various causes, processes and interactions that characterize these shocking moments in theatre history.

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