The Routledge companion to theatre and politics. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Companion to theatre and politics; Theatre and politics
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Peter Eckersall and Helena Grehan.
• Editors: Eckersall, Peter; Grehan, Helena
• Contents: List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. A Dramaturgy of Cultural Activism Helena Grehan and Peter Eckersall PART I: POST 2. Reflections Upon the ‘Post’: Towards a Cultural History and a Performance-Oriented Perspective Andy Lavender 3. Post-Dictatorship Chilean Theatre and the Political Imperative: Ictus’ Esto (no) es un testamento Jennifer Joan Thompson 4. After the Referendum: When the Theatre Tries to do ‘Something’ Marilena Zaroulia 5. Arab Political Theatre Post-Arab Spring Marvin Carlson 6. Queer Politics/Nostalgia: Performing the UpStairs Lounge Fire of 1973 Sean F. Edgecomb 7. Contemporary Theatre, the Contemporary, and Historicity C. J. W.-L. Wee 8. The vita perfumativa and Post-dramatic, Post-conceptual Personae Jon McKenzie 9. Post-98 Indonesian Theatre and Performance: Politics Between a war of Loudness and the Dramaturgy of a Silencer Ugoran Prasad 10. The Theatre of Posthuman Immunity João Florêncio 11. Revolutionary Trends at the South African National Arts Festival Anton Krueger 12. The Cultural and Political Impact of Post-migrant Theatre in Germany Azadeh Sharifi 13. Staging Post-Democracy in State 1-4 by Rimini Protokoll Imanuel Schipper 14. Parsing the Post: The Post-Political and its Utility (or not) for Performance Janelle Reinelt PART II: ASSEMBLY 15. Hosts of Angels: Climate Guardians and Quiet Activism Denise Varney 16. Reflecting upon Freedom with Meiro Koizumi Shintaro Fujii 17. An Assembly of Mourning: Documentary Theatre as a Mode Alternative Historiography Kai Tuchmann 18. Assembly as Community: Politics and Performance in Late 20th- and Early 21st-Century Buenos Aires Jean Graham-Jones 19. Advocacy, Allies, and ‘Allies of Convenience’ in Performance and Performative Protest Bree Hadley 20. From Revolution to Figuration: A Genealogy of Philippine Protest Performances Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco and Bryan Levina Viray. 21. The Politics of Care: Play, Stillness and Social Presence. Michael Balfour 22. Assembling Non-Presence in The Aborigine is Present Lara Stevens 23. 100% Tokyo (2013) by Rimini Protokoll as a Political Forum by Emancipated Performers and Audience Members Ken Hagiwara 24. Lessons in Revolting : A Postdramatic Theatre in Egypt Areeg Ibrahim 25. Obscene Public Speech Tony Fisher PART III: GAP 26. Dogwhistle Performance: Concealing White Supremacy in Right-wing Populism Shannon Steen 27. Arkadaş Kalabilir miyiz?/Can we remain friends? A Reflection on the Politics of Land, Performance and Friendship Özgül Akıncı 28. The Construction of Material Referentiality in Chilean Theatre: Los que van quedando en el camino (2010) Milena Grass Kleiner 29. To Rest in the Gap: Possibilities for Another Politics through Theatre Jazmin Badong Llana 30. ‘You are Bernarda’ : Marginalised Roma Women Take on the Main Spanish Stages Mara Valderrama 31. Dancing in the Gap Rachael Swain 32. Touring San Francisco’s Chinatown: Collective Memories and Peripatetic Performance Sean Metzger and Marike Splint 33. ‘It’s Just Not Right’: Performing Homelessness in Kalisolaite ‘Uhila’s Mo'ui Tukuhausia Emma Willis 34. ‘Resisting Production’: The Slow Politics of Theatre Mark Fleishman 35. The Speculative Collectivity of the Global Transnational, or, Social Practice and the International Division of Labour Verónica Tello 36. Acts of Collaboration and Disruption: Notes on the Asylum Ballet Uropa Solveig Gade PART IV: INSTITUTION 37. The Power of Abuse Jen Harvie 38. Institutional Aesthetics and the Crisis of Leadership Christopher Balme 39. The Politics of Teaching Theatre Glenn D’Cruz 40. Going Feral: Queerly De-Domesticating the Institution (and Running Wild) Alyson Campbell 41. Artists versus the City: The Curious Story of the Jakarta Arts Council 1968-2017 Helly Minarti 42. Festival Dramaturgy Ong Keng Sen 43. ‘100-Days House’: Blackout as Political Action Konstantina Georgelou 44. The Performative Institution Edward Scheer 45. Punishment and Chaos David Pledger PART V: MACHINE 46. Maria Lucia Cruz Correia’s Urban Action Clinic GARDEN : A Political Ecology with Diplomats of Dissensus and Composite Bodies Engaged in Intra-Action Christel Stalpaert 47. Docile Subjects: From Theatres of Automata to the Machinery of Twenty-first-century Media Evelyn Wan 48. The Human Object in Oriza Hirata’s I, Worker and Sayonara Sarah Lucie 49. Clarke and Dawe’s Mock Interviews and the Politics of Duration Yuji Sone 50. Exposing the Machinic Present: Rimini Protokoll’s Theatre of Operations Timon Beyes 51. Performances of Exposure: Santiago Sierra’s Ethical Interruptions Gabriella Calchi Novati 52. VOID Kristof van Baarle 53. Performance in the Biosphere: or, a Theatre of Things Eddie Paterson PART VI: MESSAGE 54. How does the Riot Speak? Sophie Nield 55. The Hopeless Courage of Confronting Contemporary Realities: Milo Rau’s ‘Globally Conceived Theatre of Humanity’ Peter M. Boenisch 56. Ibsen as Method: Critical Theatre for the Era of Post-Truth Politics Andrew Goldberg 57. Facing Fear: the Radical Reversal of Narratives of Risk Sigrid Merx </I&gt
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 306.4848; Theater -- Political aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351399111; 9781351399128; 9781351399104; 9780203731055
• Related ISBNs: 9781138303485
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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