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Influence of the drama

  • Performance, Politics and Activismby Peter Lichtenfels; John Rouse

    Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 90.00

    Considering both making political performance and making performance politically, this collection explores engagements of political resistance, public practice and performance media, on various scales of production within structures of neoliberal and liberal government and power. more...

  • Legislative Theatreby Augusto Boal

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 45.95

    Augusto Boal's reputation is now moving beyond the realms of theatre and drama therapy, bringing him to the attention of a wider public. Legislative Theatre is the latest and most remarkable stage in his work. 'Legislative Theatre' is an attempt to use Boal's method of 'Forum Theatre' within a political system to create a truer form of democracy.... more...

  • Imperialism and Theatreby J. Ellen Gainor

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95

    Imperialism is a transnational and transhistorical phenomenon; it occurs neither in limited areas nor at one specific moment. In cultures from across the world theatrical performance has long been a site for both the representation and support of imperialism, and resistance and rebellion against it. Imperialism and Theatre is a groundbreaking collection... more...

  • Theatre of the Realby Carol Martin

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 101.00

    This book proposes a new way to consider theatre and performance that claims a special relationship to reality, truth and authenticity. It documents innovations in devising and staging theatre and performance that takes reality as its subject, cultural shifts that have generated theatre of the real, some of its problems and some possibilities. more...

  • Engaging Performanceby Jan Cohen-Cruz

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 31.95

    Engaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response presents a combined analysis and workbook to examine "socially engaged performance." It offers a range of key practical approaches, exercises, and principles for using performance to engage in a variety of social and artistic projects. Author Jan Cohen-Cruz draws on a career of groundbreaking... more...

  • Neoliberalism and Global Theatresby Lara D. Nielsen; Patricia Ybarra

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00

    How do theatre and performance transmit and dispute ideologies of neoliberalism? The essays in this anthology examine the mechanisms and rhetorics of contemporary multinational and transnational organizations, artists, and communities that produce theatre and performance for global audiences. more...

  • Applying Performanceby Nicola Shaughnessy

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00

    This book draws upon cognitive and affect theory to examine applications of contemporary performance practices in educational, social and community contexts. The writing is situated in the spaces between making and performance, exploring the processes of creating work defined variously as collaborative, participatory and socially engaged. more...

  • Performance in the Blockades of Neoliberalismby Maurya Wickstrom

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00

    This book ranges from refugee camps in Palestine to halting sites of the Irish Travellers and elsewhere in search of a new politics practiced through performance. Written through the intersection of performance and philosophy, the book refutes neoliberalism's depoliticizing and strategic uses of humanitarianism, human rights, and development. more...

  • Feeling Theatreby Martin Welton

    Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00

    Why is it that in going to see plays we are also touched or moved by them, and is there more than metaphor involved in such claims? Considering these and other questions, this book examines a range of contemporary performance works in which performers and their audiences occupy a shared realm of feelings, in which the play is not always the thing. more...

  • Vom Lehrstück bis zum Theatersportby Michael Schmitt

    Tectum Verlag 2011; US$ 21.73

    Hauptbeschreibung Die Theaterpädagogik hat sich seit den 1970er-Jahren als eigenständige Disziplin zwischen Theater und Pädagogik auf breiter Front etabliert. Traditionell dem Schüler- und Laientheater verpflichtet, kommt sie mittlerweile in ganz unterschiedlichen Zusammenhängen zum Einsatz. Dabei ist eine solide wissenschaftliche Verortung ihrer... more...