Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of Effect - Softcover

Thompson, J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230354327 ISBN 13: 9780230354326

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Performance Affects, now in paperback and with a new preface,explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or participatory performance practice. Applied Theatre has traditionally concentrated on effects - impacts, themes communicated or 'truths' revealed. Performance Affects challenges this orientation by suggesting that an affective realm needs to be the focus for a renewed aesthetic, ethical and radical vision of the practice. Performance projects with child soldiers, storytelling programmes in tsunami-affected areas and prison theatre workshops in post-genocide Rwanda are used to demonstrate the limits of a practice reliant solely on effect - and an alternative is suggested: one that encourages a commitment to pleasure, passion and enjoyment as a starting point for a political-aesthetic practice that acknowledges the importance of our affection for others as a stimulus to social change.

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JAMES THOMPSON Professor of Applied and Social Theatre at the University of Manchester, UK, Director of In Place of War and a Director of the Centre for Applied Theatre Research. He is author of Drama Workshops for Anger Management and Offending Behaviour (1999), Applied Theatre: Bewilderment and Beyond (2003), Digging Up Stories: Applied Theatre, Performance and War and with Jenny Hughes and Michael Balfour, Performance In Place of War (2009).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0230354327
• ISBN 13: 9780230354326
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 220
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