The Politics of Performance by Baz Kershaw

The Politics of Performance by Baz Kershaw

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Zusammenfassung

A detailed analysis of oppositional theatre as radical cultural practice in its various efforts to subvert the status quo. The aim of the book is to demonstrate how oppositional theatre may have had a significant impact on social and political history.

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The Politics of Performance by Baz Kershaw

"The Politics of Performance" is a contribution to the long-running debate about the theatre as an agent of change. It addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance, through its investigation into post-war alternative and community theatre. The author proposes a theory of performance as ideological transaction, cultural intervention and community action, examining the nature of alternative theatre as a movement and the aesthetics of its styles of production, especially in the context of progressive activity elsewhere. It analyzes in detail the work of key practitioners in socially engaged theatre during four decades, and provides a detailed analysis of oppositional theatre as radical cultural practice. This book should be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics of drama and theatre studies, cultural studies and professional theatre workers.
Kershaw, Baz: - Baz Kershaw is Chair of Drama at the Department of Drama, University of Bristol. He is the author of The Politics of Performance: Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention (1992) and The Radical in Performance: Between Brecht and Baudrillard (1999), and has been published in a number of journals including the Theatre Journal, New Theatre Quarterly and Studies in Theatre and Performance.
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ISBN 13 9780415057622
ISBN 10 0415057620
Titel The Politics of Performance
Autor Baz Kershaw
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Verlag Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 1992-07-02
Seitenanzahl 272
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