Theatre, Performance and Commemoration
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Theatre, Performance and Commemoration

Staging Crisis, Memory and Nationhood

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Theatre, Performance and Commemoration

Staging Crisis, Memory and Nationhood

About this book

How does the act of performance speak to the concept of commemoration? How and why does commemorative theatre operate as a conceptual, historical and political site from which to interrogate ideas of nationalism and nationhood? This volume explores how theatre and performance create a stage for acts of commemoration, considering crises of hate, nationalism and migration, as well as political, racial and religious bigotry. It features case studies drawn from across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America. The book's four parts each explore commemoration through a different theoretical lens and present a new set of dramaturgies for research and study. While Section 1 offers a critical survey of 20th- and 21st-century discourses, Section 2 uncovers the commemorative practices underpinning contemporary dramaturgy and applies these practices to plays and performance pieces. These include works by Martin Lynch, Frank McGuinness, Sanja Mitrovic, Theater RAST, Les SlovaKs Dance Collective, Estela Golovchenko, Wajdi Mouawad, Áine Stapleton, CoisCéim, ANU Productions, Aubrey Sekhabi, and Indian and African dance practices. The final sections investigate how individual and collective memory and performances of commemoration can become tools for propaganda and political agendas.

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Yes, you can access Theatre, Performance and Commemoration by Miriam Haughton, Alinne Balduino P. Fernandes, Pieter Verstraete, Miriam Haughton,Alinne Balduino P. Fernandes,Pieter Verstraete, Claire Cochrane,Bruce McConachie in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Literary Criticism in Drama. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Contents
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Foreword: Speculating on ceremony
  9. Introduction: Theatre, performance and commemoration (Alinne Fernandes, Miriam Haughton and Pieter Verstraete)
  10. Part 1 Commemorative Practices: Performing the Contradictions of Our Present
  11. Part 2 Disruptive Lessons: Thinking through the Affects of Memory
  12. Part 3 Challenging the Nation/the State: Performing Affective Critiques
  13. Index
  14. Copyright Page