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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 boundari...

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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Mapping Political Performances: A Note on the Structure of the Anthology / E.J. Westlake
  • Performance as Sepulchre and Mousetrap: Global Encoding, Local Deciphering / Avraham Oz
  • Witnesses in the Public Sphere: Bloody Sunday and the Redefinition of Political Theatre / Paola Botham
  • Orality and the Ethics of Ownership in Community-Based Drama / David Grant
  • The Théâtre du Soleil's Trajectory from “People’s Theatre” to “Citizen Theatre:” Involvement or Renunciation? / Bérénice Hamidi-Kim
  • Ways of Unseeing: Glass Wall on the Main Stage / Tal Itzhaki
  • To Absent Friends: Ethics in the Field of Auto/Biography / Deirdre Heddon
  • Reading the Blacks Through the 1956 Preface: Politics and Betrayal / Carl Lavery
  • Barbarians and Babes: A Feminist Critique of a Postcolonial Persians / Sydney Cheek O’Donnell
  • Performing Stereotypes at Home and Abroad / Tom Maguire
  • The Comeback of Political Drama in Croatia: Or How to Kill a President by Miro Gavran / Sanja Nikčević
  • Local Knowledges, Memories, and Community: From Oral History to Performance / David Watt
  • Modalities of Israeli Political Theatre: Plonter, ARNA’S Children, and the Ruth Kanner Group / Shimon Levy
  • Documenting the Invisible: Dramatizing the Algerian Civil War of the 1990's / Susan C. Haedicke
  • The Erotic Politics of Critical Tits: Exhibitionism or Feminist Statement? / Wendy Clupper
  • The Güegüence Effect: The National Character and the Nicaraguan Political Process / E.J. Westlake
  • Do the Ends Justify the Means? Considering Homeless Lives as Propaganda and Product / Beverly Redman
  • The Birabahn/Threlkeld Project: Place, History, Memory, Performance, and Coexistence / Kerrie Schaefer
  • 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 / Lloyd Peters
  • Gay Muslims and Salty Meat Pies: The Limits of Performing Community / Sonja Arsham Kuftinec
  • About the Contributors.

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