Theatre matters : performance and culture on the world stage / edited by Richard Boon and Jane Plastow.
| Call Number | 792 |
| Title | Theatre matters : performance and culture on the world stage / edited by Richard Boon and Jane Plastow. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xxii, 203 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Series | Cambridge studies in modern theatre |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | 'Revolution as muse' : drama as surreptitious insurrection in a post-colonial, military state / Making theatre for a change : two plays of the Eritrean liberation struggle / Race matters in South African theatre / Dreams of violence : moving beyond colonialism in Canadian and Caribbean drama / French-speaking Caribbean : journeying from the native land / 'Binglishing' the stage : a generation of Asian theatre in England / Popular theatre for the building of social awareness : the Indian experience / Promise of performance : true love/real love / Making America or making revolution : the theatre of Ricardo Halac in Argentina / |
| Summary | Theatre, in a variety of forms and contexts, can make, and indeed has made, positive political and social interventions in a range of developing cultures across the world. In this book a distinguished team of theatre historians and dramatists explores how theatre has a dynamic and often difficult relationship with societies and states, arguing positively that theatrical activity can make a difference. The collection begins with a foreword by Wole Soyinka and, through the volume, specially chosen plays, projects and movements are examined, embracing a variety of theatrical forms from conventional text to on-site developmental work. The communities addressed range from the national to the local, from middle-class elites to the economically dispossessed in countries such as Brazil and Argentina, Nigeria, Eritrea and South Africa, and India and the Caribbean countries. |
| Added Author | Plastow, Jane, editor. Boon, Richard, editor. |
| Subject | Theater Political aspects. Theater and society. |
| Multimedia |
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| Summary | Theatre, in a variety of forms and contexts, can make, and indeed has made, positive political and social interventions in a range of developing cultures across the world. In this book a distinguished team of theatre historians and dramatists explores how theatre has a dynamic and often difficult relationship with societies and states, arguing positively that theatrical activity can make a difference. The collection begins with a foreword by Wole Soyinka and, through the volume, specially chosen plays, projects and movements are examined, embracing a variety of theatrical forms from conventional text to on-site developmental work. The communities addressed range from the national to the local, from middle-class elites to the economically dispossessed in countries such as Brazil and Argentina, Nigeria, Eritrea and South Africa, and India and the Caribbean countries. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | 'Revolution as muse' : drama as surreptitious insurrection in a post-colonial, military state / Making theatre for a change : two plays of the Eritrean liberation struggle / Race matters in South African theatre / Dreams of violence : moving beyond colonialism in Canadian and Caribbean drama / French-speaking Caribbean : journeying from the native land / 'Binglishing' the stage : a generation of Asian theatre in England / Popular theatre for the building of social awareness : the Indian experience / Promise of performance : true love/real love / Making America or making revolution : the theatre of Ricardo Halac in Argentina / |
| Subject | Theater Political aspects. Theater and society. |
| Multimedia |