World Political Theatre and Performance

Theories, Histories, Practices
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42580-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 504 g

Reihe: Themes in Theatre

World Political Theatre and Performance: Theories, Histories, Practices is the second collection of essays to emerge from the Political Performances Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from multiple locations, the book analyses a range of examples – historical and contemporary – of counter-hegemonic theatre and performance.


Part 1 offers a diachronic view of the relationship between activism and performance; Part 2 focuses on the changing nature of what constitutes ‘political theatre’ today. Case studies from Finland to India and from Chile to China are framed by section introductions that underline both commonalities and tensions, while the general introduction reflects on what a radical practice can look like in the face of global neoliberalism.

Contributors: Julia Boll, Paola Botham, Marco Galea, Aneta Glowacka, Pujya Ghosh, Camila González Ortiz, Bérénice Hamidi-Kim, Fatine Bahar Karlidag, Madli Pesti, José Ramón Prado-Pérez, Trish Reid, Mikko-Olavi Seppälä, Andy Smith, Evi Stamatiou, Wei Zheyu.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Aragay, Mireia

Botham, Paola

Prado-Pérez, José Ramón

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Notes on Contributors

General Introduction
Trish Reid

Activist Theatres/Performances Past and Present

Activist Theatres/Performances, Past and Present: An Introduction
José Ramón Prado-Pérez

Political Activism or Handling Trauma? The Civil War Staged in Workers’ Theatres in 1920s Finland
Mikko-Olavi Seppälä

From Revolution to Dissent: a Case Study of the Changing Role of Theatre and Activism in Bengal
Pujya Ghosh

Who Gets to Represent the Past and Why Should They Bother? Maltese Political Theatre in the 1980s
Marco Galea

A Film-Set Activism: Political Dimensions of a Labor Day Performance
Fatine Bahar Karlidag

Making the Audience Cry: Witnessing Violence and the Ethics of Compelled Empathy
Julia Boll

Stepping Forward: an Exploration of Devised Theatre’s Democratic Designs in an Actor-Training Setting
Evi Stamatiou

Contemporary (Debates on) Political Theatre

Contemporary (Debates on) Political Theatre: An Introduction
Paola Botham

The Politics of Theatre in France Today
Bérénice Hamidi-Kim

Returning to the ‘Plebeian’ Roots of Comedy: Contemporary Political Theatre in Poland
Aneta Glowacka

Theatre NO99’s Savisaar: an Estonian Political Musical for the Twenty-First Century
Madli Pesti

Theatre and Democracy in Chile: La Re-sentida’s La imaginación del futuro, or the Failure of Utopias
Camila González Ortiz

The Touring Grass Stage: Staging the Site-Specific Dilemma of Glocalization in Hypermodern China
Wei Zheyu

Meeting in the Theatre to Think towards Social and Political Change
Andy Smith

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mireia Aragay is Professor of English Literature, Drama and Theatre at the University of Barcelona. She is Principal Investigator of the Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona research group and has published widely in the field.

Paola Botham is Lecturer in Drama at Birmingham City University, UK. She has published extensively on modern and contemporary political theatre in Britain and Chile, and is a former convenor of IFTR’s Political Performances Working Group.

José Ramón Prado-Pérez is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Universitat Jaume I. He is a member of the Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona research group and publishes on British political theatre.