Performance and Politics in Popular Drama
Author : Louis James
Publisher :
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : Louis James
Publisher :
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : David Bradby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521285247
Since the beginning of the nineteenth-century, many forms of theatre have been called 'popular', but in the twentieth-century the term 'popular drama' has taken on definite political overtones, often indicating a repudiation of 'commercial theatre'. Does this mean that political theatre is or tries to be more attractive to more people than commercial theatre? Does it conversely mean that commercial theatre has no political effects? The articles in this book were submitted as papers for a conference on the theme of 'popular' theatre, film and television. Contributions came from people with very different types of experience: from an ex-animal trainer to a lecturer in film studies; from playwrights, directors and actors to professional critics and academics. Each author focused on a particular problem of defining drama in performance, drawing together the conditions of performance, the types of audience and the political effects of the plays or films in question. The result was a series of fruitful connections and juxtapositions that shows the remarkable continuity of the problems raised in attempts to create a popular political drama.
Author : Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,60 MB
Release : 1991-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1587290340
Recently in the field of theatre studies there has been an increasing amount of debate and dissonance regarding the borders of its territory, its methodologies, subject matter, and scholarly perspectives. The nature of this debate could be termed "political" and, in fact, concerns "the performance of power"—the struggle over power relations embedded in texts, methodologies, and the academy itself. This striking new collection of nineteen divergent essays represents this performance of power and the way in which the recent convergence of new critical theories with historical studies has politicized the study of the theatre. Neither play text, performance, nor scholarship and teaching can safely reside any longer in the "free," politically neutral, self-signifying realm of the aesthetic. Politicizing theatrical discourse means that both the hermeneutics and the histories of theatre reveal the role of ideology and power dynamics. New strategies and concepts—and a vital new phase of awareness—appear in these illuminating essays. A variety of historical periods, from the Renaissance through the Victorian and up to the most contemporary work of the Wooster group, illustrate the ways in which contemporary strategies do not require contemporary texts and performances but can combine with historical methods and subjects to produce new theatrical discourse.
Author : Simon Parry
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 21,50 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1526150891
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book is about science in theatre and performance. It explores how theatre and performance engage with emerging scientific themes from artificial intelligence to genetics and climate change. The book covers a wide range of performance forms from Broadway musicals to educational theatre, from Somali drama to grime videos. It features work by pioneering companies including Gob Squad, Headlong Theatre and Theatre of Debate as well as offering fresh analysis of global blockbusters such as Wicked and Urinetown. The book offers detailed description and analysis of theatre and performance practices as well as broader commentary on the politics of theatre as public engagement with science. Science in performance is essential reading for researchers, students and practitioners working between science and the arts within fields such as theatre and performance studies, science communication, interdisciplinary arts and health humanities.
Author : Elin Diamond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,65 MB
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136165886
Performance and Cultural Politics is a groundbreaking collection of essays which explore the historical and cultural territories of performance, written by the foremost scholars in the field. The essays, exploring performance art, theatre, music and dance, range from Oscar Wilde to Eric Clapton; from the Rose Theatre to U.S. Holocaust museums. The topic includes: * Sex Play: Stereotype, Pose and Dildo * Grave Performances: The Cultural Politics of Memory * Genealogies: Critical Performances * Identity Politics: Passing, Carnival and the Law In the concluding section, `Performer's Performance', performance artist Robbie McCauley offers the practitioner's perspective on performance studies. Interdisciplinary, thought-provoking and rich in new ideas, Performance and Cultural Politics is a landmark in the emerging field of performance studies.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9004430997
World Political Theatre and Performance brings together scholars and practitioners from multiple locations to analyse counter-hegemonic theatre and performance. International case studies are framed by a common reflection on the meaning of radical practice in the face of global neoliberalism.
Author : Sara Brady
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 023036733X
Using a performance studies lens, this book is a study of performance in the post-9/11 context of the so-called war on terror. It analyzes conventional theatre, political protest, performance art and other sites of performance to unpack the ways in which meaning has been made in the contemporary global sociopolitical environment.
Author : C. Finburgh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 34,15 MB
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 023059543X
This is the first book to explore the broad political significance of Genet's performance practice by focusing on his radical experiments, polemical subjects and formal innovations in theatre, film and dance. Its new approach brings together the diverse aspects of Genet's work through essays by international scholars and interviews.
Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 0415509688
This collection asks what's at stake when a theatrical space is created and when a performance takes place: under what circumstances the topology of theatre becomes political. It visits a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, and of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts in theatre history and contemporary performance.
Author : Greg Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 1998-09-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521563313
Analyses the role of drama in English and Scottish court politics during the sixteenth century.