Book Description

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 1990S /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.