1st Edition

The Politics of Performance Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention

By Baz Kershaw Copyright 1992
294 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction: In quest of performance efficacy, Part I Theory and issues: alternative and community theatre as radical cultural intervention, Part II A history of alternative and community theatre, Glossary, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Baz Kershaw