Political and Protest Theatre after 9/11 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political and Protest Theatre after 9/11 write by Jenny Spencer. This book was released on 2011-12-22. Political and Protest Theatre after 9/11 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection documents and examines political and protest theatre produced between the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and Obama’s election in 2008 by British and American artists responding to their own governments’ actions and policies during this time. The plays take up topics such as the ongoing wars on terror, Blair’s support of U.S. policies, the flawed intelligence that led to the Iraq war, and illegal detentions and torture at Abu Ghraib. The authors argue that engaged artists faced a radically different sociopolitical context for their work after 9/11 compared to earlier social protest movements and new forms of theatre, and different emotional strategies were necessary to meet the challenges. The subtitle Patriotic Dissent suggests the double stance of many artists-- influenced by patriotic expressions of national solidarity, yet critical of the ways that patriotic language was put to use against others. The articles represent a broad range of theatre: Broadway musicals, documentary theatre, adaptations of classical theatre, new plays by British playwrights, street performances and installations, and musical concerts. The contributors’ case studies evaluate the effectiveness of important instances of political theatre and protest from this decade, arguing for the significance, relevance, and continuing necessity for evolving forms of political theatre today.
Performance, Politics, and the War on Terror
Performance, Politics, and the War on Terror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performance, Politics, and the War on Terror write by Sara Brady. This book was released on 2012-01-17. Performance, Politics, and the War on Terror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using a performance studies lens, this book is a study of performance in the post-9/11 context of the so-called war on terror. It analyzes conventional theatre, political protest, performance art and other sites of performance to unpack the ways in which meaning has been made in the contemporary global sociopolitical environment.
The Politics and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore's Drama
The Politics and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore's Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore's Drama write by Arnab Bhattacharya. This book was released on 2014-12-05. The Politics and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore's Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first volume to focus specifically on Rabindranath Tagore’s dramatic literature, visiting translations and adaptations of Tagore’s drama, and cross-cultural encounters in his works. As Asia’s first Nobel Laureate, Tagore’s highly original plays occupy a central position in the Indian theatrescape. Tagore experimented with dance, music, dance drama, and plays, exploring concepts of environment, education, gender and women, postcolonial encounters, romantic idealism, and universality. Tagore’s drama plays a generous host to experimentations with new performance modes, like the writing and staging of an all-women play on stage for the first time, or the use of cross-cultural styles such as Manipuri dance, Thai craft in stage design, or the Baul singing styles. This book is an exciting re-exploration of Tagore’s plays, visiting issues such as his contribution to Indian drama, drama and environment, feminist readings, postcolonial engagements, cross-cultural encounters, drama as performance, translational and adaptation modes, the non-translated or the non-translatable Tagore drama, Tagore drama in the 21st century, and Indian film. The volume serves as a wide-ranging and up-to-date resource on the criticism of Tagore drama, and will appeal to a range of Theatre and Performance scholars as well as those interested in Indian theatre, literature, and film.
Text & Presentation, 2012
Text & Presentation, 2012 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Text & Presentation, 2012 write by Graley Herren. This book was released on 2012-12-12. Text & Presentation, 2012 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international and interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference.
The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures
The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures write by Erika Fischer-Lichte. This book was released on 2014-01-10. The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are interwoven, and how they are dependent upon each other. While the term ‘intercultural theatre’ as a concept points back to postcolonialism and its contradictions, The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures explores global developments in the performing arts that cannot adequately be explained and understood using postcolonial theory. The authors challenge the dichotomy ‘the West and the rest’ – where Western cultures are ‘universal’ and non-Western cultures are ‘particular’ – as well as ideas of national culture and cultural ownership. This volume uses international case studies to explore the politics of globalization, looking at new paternalistic forms of exchange and the new inequalities emerging from it. These case studies are guided by the principle that processes of interweaving performance cultures are, in fact, political processes. The authors explore the inextricability of the aesthetic and the political, whereby aesthetics cannot be perceived as opposite to the political; rather, the aesthetic is the political. Helen Gilbert’s essay ‘Let the Games Begin: Pageants, Protests, Indigeneity (1968–2010)’won the 2015 Marlis Thiersch Prize for best essay from the Australasian Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies Association.
