After '89 (eBook)

Polish theatre and the political

Bryce Lease (Autor)

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2016
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-0105-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book provides an exceptional introduction to Polish theatre since the fall of Communism, exploring how theatre goes beyond norms and nationalistic concepts to intersect with politics, feminism, queer identities, the rise in anti-Semitism, ethnicities and history.

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After '89 takes as its subject the dynamic new range of performance practices that have been developed since the demise of communism in the flourishing theatrical landscape of Poland. After 1989, the theatre has retained its historical role as the crucial space for debating and interrogating cultural and political identities. Providing access to scholarship and criticism not readily accessible to an English-speaking readership, this study surveys the rebirth of the theatre as a site of public intervention and social criticism since the establishment of democracy and the proliferation of theatre makers that have flaunted cultural commonplaces and begged new questions of Polish culture. Lease argues that the most significant change in performance practice after 1989 has been from opposition to the state to a more pluralistic practice that engages with marginalized identities purposefully left out of the rhetoric of freedom and independence.

Autor

Bryce Lease is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London

Inhalt

Introduction: really existing democracy
1. The move to neoliberalism
2. No more heroes
3. Beyond a Teatr Kobiecy
4. Gay emancipation and queer counterpublics
5. Rethinking Polish/Jewish relations
6. Equivalencies of exclusion
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2016
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Schlagworte: Anti-Semitism • contemporary theatre • Gender Studies • pluralism • Poland • Polish romanticism • political theatre • Postcolonial • Postcommunism • Queer Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-0105-X / 152610105X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-0105-1 / 9781526101051