Political Community Theatre Books

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1. Social Works: Performing Arts, Supporting Publics

   By Shannon Jackson

   At a time when art world critics and curators heavily debate the social, at a time when community organizers and civic activists are reconsidering the role of aesthetics in social reform, this book makes explicit some of the contradictions and competing stakes of contemporary experimental...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-48601-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama: Community, Kinship, and Citizenship

   By Kanika Batra

   Kanika Batra is Assistant Professor of English at Texas Tech University....

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-87591-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Jana Sanskriti: Forum Theatre and Democracy in India

   By Sanjoy Ganguly

   Jana Sanskriti Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed, based in West Bengal, is probably the largest and longest lasting Forum Theatre operation in the world. It was considered by Augusto Boal to be the chief exponent of his methodology outside of its native Brazil. This book is a unique...

   April 2010 | 978-0-415-57752-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Electoral Guerrilla Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements

   By L.M. Bogad

   Across the globe, in liberal democracies where the right to vote is framed as both civil right and civic duty, disillusioned creative activists run for public office on sarcastic, ironic and iconoclastic platforms. With little intention of 'winning' in the conventional sense, they use drag, camp...

   2005 | 978-0-415-33225-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Hamlet and the Baker's Son: My Life in Theatre and Politics

   By Augusto Boal

   Hamlet and the Baker's Son is the autobiography of Augusto Boal, inventor of the internationally renowned Forum Theatre system, and 'Theatre of the Oppressed' and author of Games for Actors and Non-Actors and Legislative Theatre. Continuing to travel the world giving workshops and inspiration to...

   2001 | 978-0-415-22989-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Radical in Performance: Between Brecht and Baudrillard

   By Baz Kershaw

   The Radical in Performance investigates the crisis in contemporary theatre, and celebrates the subversive in performance. It is the first full-length study to explore the link between a western theatre which, says Kershaw, is largely outdated and the blossoming of postmodern performance, much of...

   1999 | 978-0-415-18668-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. The Politics of Performance: Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention

   By Baz Kershaw

   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,...

   1992 | 978-0-415-05763-9 | Paperback (Routledge)