Political performances : : theory and practice / / edited Susan C. Haedicke ... [et al.].

• Superior document: Themes in theatre ; 4
• TeilnehmendeR: Haedicke, Susan C.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Themes in theatre ; 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Mapping Political Performances: A Note on the Structure of the Anthology /; Performance as Sepulchre and Mousetrap: Global Encoding, Local Deciphering /; Witnesses in the Public Sphere: Bloody Sunday and the Redefinition of Political Theatre /; Orality and the Ethics of Ownership in Community-Based Drama /; The Théâtre du Soleil's Trajectory from “People’s Theatre” to “Citizen Theatre:” Involvement or Renunciation? /; Ways of Unseeing: Glass Wall on the Main Stage /; To Absent Friends: Ethics in the Field of Auto/Biography /; Reading the Blacks Through the 1956 Preface: Politics and Betrayal /; Barbarians and Babes: A Feminist Critique of a Postcolonial Persians /; Performing Stereotypes at Home and Abroad /; The Comeback of Political Drama in Croatia: Or How to Kill a President by Miro Gavran /; Local Knowledges, Memories, and Community: From Oral History to Performance /; Modalities of Israeli Political Theatre: Plonter, ARNA’S Children, and the Ruth Kanner Group /; Documenting the Invisible: Dramatizing the Algerian Civil War of the 1990's /; The Erotic Politics of Critical Tits: Exhibitionism or Feminist Statement? /; The Güegüence Effect: The National Character and the Nicaraguan Political Process /; Do the Ends Justify the Means? Considering Homeless Lives as Propaganda and Product /; The Birabahn/Threlkeld Project: Place, History, Memory, Performance, and Coexistence /; Non-Naturalistic Performance in Political Narrative Drama: Methodologies and Languages for Political Performance with Reference to the Rehearsal and Production of E to the Power 3—Education, Education, Education /; Gay Muslims and Salty Meat Pies: The Limits of Performing Community /; About the Contributors.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 1282505289; 9786612505287; 9042026073; 1441625461
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited Susan C. Haedicke ... [et al.].

Political Performances: Theory and Practice emerges from the work of the Political Performances Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research/Fédération Internationale pour la Recherche de Théâtrale. The collection of essays strives to interrogate definitions and expand boundaries of political performance. Members of Political Performances are from around the world and so approach the intersection of politics and performance from very different perspectives. Some focus on socio-political context, others on dramatic content, others on political issues and activism, and still others examine the ways in which communities perform their collective identity and political agency. The organizational structure of Political Performances highlights the variety of ways in which politics and performance converge. Each section - “Queries”, “Texts”, “Contexts” and “Practice” - frames this confluence according to certain common threads that emerge from essays that deal with topics from the ethics of autobiographical performance, the political efficacy of verbatim theatre, the challenges of community-based performance, political and self-censorship, and the impossibility of representing atrocity. The essays challenge existing ideas of political performance and point the way to new approaches.