1st Edition
Radical Street Performance An International Anthology
Edited By Jan Cohen-Cruz
Copyright 1994
328 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
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Radical Street Performance is the first volume to collect together the fascinating array of writings by activists, directors, performers, critics, scholars and journalists who have documented street theatre around the world. More than thirty essays explore the myriad forms this most public of performances can take: * agit-prop * invisible theatre * demonstrations and rallies * direct action... Read more
General introduction; 1: Peter Handke; Part One: Agit-Prop; 1: Introduction; 2: Introduction by Vladimir Tolstoy Documents Edited by Vladimir Tolstoy, Irina Bibikova And Catherine Cooke; 3: Edgar Snow; 4: Safdar Hashmi; 5: Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz; 6: Alisa Solomon; 7: Dubravka Knezevic; Part Two: Witness; 2: Introduction; 8: Steven Durland; 9: Diana Taylor; 10: Marguerite Waller; 11: Jan Cohen-Cruz; 12: Dan Sullivan; 13: Sudipto Chatterjee; 14: Hollis Giammatteo; Part Three: Integration; 3: Introduction; 15: Augusto Boal; 16: Adrian Piper; 17: Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman; 18: from THE DIMENSION OF SOCIAL EXTERIORITY IN THE PRODUCTION; 19: Living on the Street; 20: from TAKING DIRECT ACTION; Part Four: Utopia; 4: Introduction; 21: from Triumph Des Willens (Triumph of the Will, 1935); 22: Notes on Political Street Theatre, Paris; 23: from Letter from the South of Italy; 24: America has more Television Sets than Toilets; 25: from The Street is the Stages; 26: from The Celebratory Performance of John fox and Welfare State International; Part Five: Tradition; 5: Introduction; 27: Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp; 28: Communal Space and Performance in Africa; 29: from The Language of African Theatre; 30: from EL Teatro Campesino and the Mexican Popular Performance Tradition; 31: The Taumbayan as Epic Hero,the Audience as Community; 32: A Queer Circus Amok in New York; 33: Louder than Traffic Bread and Puppet Parades; 34: Notes toward an Unwritten History of Anti-apartheid Street Performance
Biography
Jan Cohen-Cruz
'a useful text for students and general readers involved in... myriad forms of theatre' - New Theatre Quarterly
