The politics of performance radical theatre as cultural intervention

• Main Author: Kershaw, Baz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2015
• Subjects: Little theater movement > Great Britain; Experimental theater > History > 20th century > Great Britain; Theater > Political aspects > Great Britain; Theater and society > Great Britain
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• Physical Description: 281 pages 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-265) and indexes
• ISBN: 9781138131163

The Politics of Performance^ addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation into post-war alternative and community theatre. It proposes a theory of performace as ideological transaction, cultural intervention and community action, which is used to illuminate the potential social and political effects of radical performance practice. It raises issues about the nature of alternative theatre as a movement and the aesthetics of its styles of production, especially in relation to progressive counter-cultural formations. It analyses in detail the work of key practitioners in socially engaged theatre during four decades, setting each in the context of social, political and cultural history and focusing particularly on how they used that context to enhance the potential efficacy of their productions.