The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics / Edition 1

by Peter Eckersall, Helena Grehan

Overview

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?".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138303485
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/22/2019
Series:	Routledge Companions
Pages:	386
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

This impressive companion offers deep analysis and extensive international coverage of performances, contexts, theories and geographies. The eight terms that structure it creatively disrupt conventional perceptions of politics and standard ways of thinking about theatre’s impact. The length of each short essay belies both its complexity and its contribution to productive negotiations between theatre and politics.

Professor Joanne Tompkins, The University of Queensland

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics provides crucially diverse and consistently inspiring clarion calls to action. A rich collection of interventions from across our contemporary world, The Companion offers vital examples of cultural activism that readers might engage, develop and deliver in their own acts of political performance.

Professor Susan Bennett, University of Calgary

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