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Critical perspectives on applied theatre /

Contributor(s): Hughes, Jenny, 1971- [editor.] | Nicholson, Helen, 1958- [editor.].
Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016Description: xiv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781107065048; 9781107065048:; 1107065046; 9781107642287; 1107642280.Subject(s): Theater and society | Community theaterDDC classification: 792
Contents:
Applied theatre : ecology of practice / Jenny Hughes and Helen Nicholson -- Toward a historiography of the absent : on the late pasts of applied theatre and community performance / Baz Kershaw -- A pre-history of applied theatre : work, house, perform / Jenny Hughes -- Applied theatre and cultural memory in East and Southeast Asia / Wan-jung Wang -- Dear Nise : method, madness and artistic occupation at a psychiatric hospital in Rio de Janeiro / Paul Heritage and Silvia Ramos -- Performing location : place and applied theatre / Sally Mackey -- Peacebuilding performances in the aftermath of war : lessons from Bougainville / Paul Dwyer -- Applied theatre and climate change in Bangladesh : indigenous theatrics for neoliberal theatricks / Syed Jamil Ahmed -- Applied theatre and disaster capitalism : resisting and rebuilding in Christchurch / Peter O'Connor -- Applied theatre and participation in the 'new' South Africa : a possible politics / Mark Fleishman -- Staging labour rights / Soyini Madison -- The micro-political and the socio-structural in applied theatre with homeless youth / Kathleen Gallagher -- A good day out : applied theatre, relationality and participation / Helen Nicholson.
Summary: This collection offers fresh perspectives on the aesthetics, politics and histories of applied theatre in a range of global contexts.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Applied theatre : ecology of practice / Jenny Hughes and Helen Nicholson -- Toward a historiography of the absent : on the late pasts of applied theatre and community performance / Baz Kershaw -- A pre-history of applied theatre : work, house, perform / Jenny Hughes -- Applied theatre and cultural memory in East and Southeast Asia / Wan-jung Wang -- Dear Nise : method, madness and artistic occupation at a psychiatric hospital in Rio de Janeiro / Paul Heritage and Silvia Ramos -- Performing location : place and applied theatre / Sally Mackey -- Peacebuilding performances in the aftermath of war : lessons from Bougainville / Paul Dwyer -- Applied theatre and climate change in Bangladesh : indigenous theatrics for neoliberal theatricks / Syed Jamil Ahmed -- Applied theatre and disaster capitalism : resisting and rebuilding in Christchurch / Peter O'Connor -- Applied theatre and participation in the 'new' South Africa : a possible politics / Mark Fleishman -- Staging labour rights / Soyini Madison -- The micro-political and the socio-structural in applied theatre with homeless youth / Kathleen Gallagher -- A good day out : applied theatre, relationality and participation / Helen Nicholson.

This collection offers fresh perspectives on the aesthetics, politics and histories of applied theatre in a range of global contexts.

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