The dramatic society : essays on contemporary performance and political theory /: essays on contemporary performance and political theory. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Klaas Tindemans.
• Authors: Tindemans, Klaas
• Contents: 1. The Horrible Return of the Heroines: Antigone and Medea in Performance in the Aftermath of 9/11 2. Political Explosion, Bodily Implosion: Ivo van Hove, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and Their Alternative Shakespeares 3. A Caricature of Totalitarianism: Bertold Brecht and His Vulnerable Working Through of the Third Reich 4. Anatomy of a Genocide: Theatre About Rwanda, 1994 by Groupov, Milo Rau, and Others 5. The Wounded German Body: Christoph Schlingensief and the Scars of Postwar (Re)united Germany 6. The European Frontier: Thomas Bellinck’s Museum of Failures, and Other Imaginary Europes 7. The Temperament of the Judge: The Dispute Between Ai Weiwei and Chinese Authorities, Reenacted 8. Document, Drama, and Orientalism: Laila Soliman and Her Precarious Theatre of the Revolution 9. Truth, Justice, and Performative Knowledge: Chokri Ben Chikha, Truth Commissions, and (Neo)colonial Injustices 10. Revolution, Body, Language: Post-Communist Nostalgia in the Theatre of Willem de Wolf
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.4848; Drama -- Political aspects; Theater -- Political aspects; Theater and society
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000774504; 9781000774467; 9781003039280
• Related ISBNs: 9780367483173; 9780367483159
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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