The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics

Peter Eckersall, Helena Grehan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

386 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-30348-5 (ISBN)

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The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays on the most important questions faced by today’s writers, critics, audiences, theatre and performance makers. Featuring texts written by scholars and artists who are diversely situated, its multiple perspectives address the question "How can we be political now?".

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays, provocations, and interventions on the most important questions faced by today’s writers, critics, audiences, and theatre and performance makers. Featuring texts written by scholars and artists who are diversely situated (geographically, culturally, politically, and institutionally), its multiple perspectives broadly address the question "How can we be political now?"

To respond to this question, Peter Eckersall and Helena Grehan have created eight galvanising themes as frameworks or rubrics to rethink the critical, creative, and activist perspectives on questions of politics and theatre. Each theme is linked to a set of guiding keywords:

Post (post consensus, post-Brexit, post-Fukushima, post-neoliberalism, post-humanism, post-global financial crisis, post-acting, the real)

Assembly (assemblage, disappearance, permission, community, citizen, protest, refugee)

Gap (who is in and out, what can be seen/heard/funded/allowed)

Institution (visibility/darkness, inclusion, rules)

Machine (biodata, surveillance economy, mediatisation)

Message (performance and conviction, didacticism, propaganda)

End (suffering, stasis, collapse, entropy)

Re. (reset, rescale, reanimate, reimagine, replay: how to bring complexity back into the public arena, how art can help to do this).

These themes were developed in conversation with key thinkers and artists in the field, and the resulting texts engage with artistic works across a range of modes including traditional theatre, contemporary performance, public protest events, activism, and community and participatory theatre.

Suitable for academics, performance makers, and students, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics explores questions of how to be political in the early 21st century, by exploring how theatre and performance might provoke, unsettle, reinforce, or productively destabilise the status quo.

Peter Eckersall is Professor of Theatre at the Graduate Centre, CUNY, and Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Recent publications include New Media Dramaturgy (with Edward Scheer and Helena Grehan, 2017) and The Dumb Type Reader (with Edward Scheer and Fujii Shintaro, 2017). Helena Grehan is Professor of Creative Arts at Murdoch University. She writes on performance and politics, spectatorship and ethics, and new media dramaturgy. Her most recent books are New Media Dramaturgy (with Edward Scheer and Peter Eckersall, 2017) and William Yang: Stories of Love and Death (with Edward Scheer).

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. A Dramaturgy of Cultural Activism

PART I: POST

PART II: ASSEMBLY

PART III: GAP

PART IV: INSTITUTION

PART V: MACHINE

PART VI: MESSAGE

PART VII: END

PART VIII: RE

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.03.2019
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Companions
Zusatzinfo	1 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	793 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-138-30348-8 / 1138303488
ISBN-13	978-1-138-30348-5 / 9781138303485
Zustand	Neuware