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Taylor and Francis Routledge Companion To Theatre And Politics 1St Edition 2019 by Peter Eckersall, Helena Grehan
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays, provocations, and interventions on the most important questions faced by today's writers, critics, audiences, and theatre and performance makers. Featuring texts written by scholars and artists who are diversely situated (geographically, culturally, politically, and institutionally), its multiple perspectives broadly address the question "How can we be political now?" To respond to this question, Peter Eckersall and Helena Grehan have created eight galvanising themes as frameworks or rubrics to rethink the critical, creative, and activist perspectives on questions of politics and theatre. Each theme is linked to a set of guiding keywords:Post (post consensus, post-Brexit, post-Fukushima, post-neoliberalism, post-humanism, post-global financial crisis, post-acting, the real)Assembly (assemblage, disappearance, permission, community, citizen, protest, refugee)Gap (who is in and out, what can be seen/heard/funded/allowed)Institution (visibility/darkness, inclusion, rules)Machine (biodata, surveillance economy, mediatisation)Message (performance and conviction, didacticism, propaganda)End (suffering, stasis, collapse, entropy)Re. (reset, rescale, reanimate, reimagine, replay: how to bring complexity back into the public arena, how art can help to do this).These themes were developed in conversation with key thinkers and artists in the field, and the resulting texts engage with artistic works across a range of modes including traditional theatre, contemporary performance, public protest events, activism, and community and participatory theatre. Suitable for academics, performance makers, and students, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics explores questions of how to be political in the early 21st century, by exploring how theatre and performance might provoke, unsettle, reinforce, or productively destabilise the status quo. List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgements1. A Dramaturgy of Cultural ActivismHelena Grehan and Peter EckersallPART I: POST2. Reflections Upon the 'Post': Towards a Cultural History and a Performance-Oriented Perspective Andy Lavender3. Post-Dictatorship Chilean Theatre and the Political Imperative: Ictus' Esto (no) es un testamentoJennifer Joan Thompson4. After the Referendum: When the Theatre Tries to do 'Something'Marilena Zaroulia5. Arab Political Theatre Post-Arab SpringMarvin Carlson6. Queer Politics/Nostalgia: Performing the UpStairs Lounge Fire of 1973Sean F. Edgecomb7. Contemporary Theatre, the Contemporary, and HistoricityC. J. W.-L. Wee8. The vita perfumativa and Post-dramatic, Post-conceptual PersonaeJon McKenzie9. Post-98 Indonesian Theatre and Performance: Politics Between a war of Loudness and the Dramaturgy of a SilencerUgoran Prasad10. The Theatre of Posthuman ImmunityJoao Florencio11. Revolutionary Trends at the South African National Arts FestivalAnton Krueger12. The Cultural and Political Impact of Post-migrant Theatre in GermanyAzadeh Sharifi13. Staging Post-Democracy in State 1-4 by Rimini ProtokollImanuel Schipper14. Parsing the Post: The Post-Political and its Utility (or not) for PerformanceJanelle Reinelt PART II: ASSEMBLY15. Hosts of Angels: Climate Guardians and Quiet Activism Denise Varney16. Reflecting upon Freedom with Meiro KoizumiShintaro Fujii 17. An Assembly of Mourning: Documentary Theatre as a Mode Alternative HistoriographyKai Tuchmann18. Assembly as Community: Politics and Performance in Late 20th- and Early 21st-Century Buenos Aires Jean Graham-Jones19. Advocacy, Allies, and 'Allies of Convenience' in Performance and Performative Protest Bree Hadley20. From Revolution to Figuration: A Genealogy of Philippine Protest Performances Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco and Bryan Levina Viray.21. The Politics of Care: Play, Stillness and Social Presence.Michael Balfour22. Assembling Non-Presence in The Aborigine is PresentLara Stevens23. 100% Tokyo (2013) by Rimini Protokoll as a Political Forum by Emancipated Performers and Audience MembersKen Hagiwara24. Lessons in Revolting: A Postdramatic Theatre in Egypt Areeg Ibrahim25. Obscene Public Speech Tony FisherPART III: GAP26. Dogwhistle Performance: Concealing White Supremacy in Right-wing Populism Shannon Steen27. Arkadas Kalabilir miyiz?/Can we remain friends? A Reflection on the Politics of Land, Performance and FriendshipOEzgul Akinci28. The Construction of Material Referentiality in Chilean Theatre: Los que van quedando en el camino (2010)Milena Grass Kleiner29. To Rest in the Gap: Possibilities for Another Politics through Theatre Jazmin Badong Llana30. 'You are Bernarda': Marginalised Roma Women Take on the Main Spanish StagesMara Valderrama 31. Dancing in the GapRachael Swain 32. Touring San Francisco's Chinatown: Collective Memories and Peripatetic PerformanceSean Metzger and Marike Splint33. 'It's Just Not Right': Performing Homelessness in Kalisolaite 'Uhila's Mo'ui TukuhausiaEmma Willis34. 'Resisting Production': The Slow Politics of TheatreMark Fleishman35. The Speculative Collectivity of the Global Transnational, or, Social Practice and the International Division of Labour Veronica Tello36. Acts of Collaboration and Disruption: Notes on the Asylum Ballet UropaSolveig GadePART IV: INSTITUTION37. The Power of AbuseJen Harvie 38. Institutional Aesthetics and the Crisis of LeadershipChristopher Balme 39. The Politics of Teaching TheatreGlenn D'Cruz 40. Going Feral: Queerly De-Domesticating the Institution (and Running Wild)Alyson Campbell41. Artists versus the City: The Curious Story of the Jakarta Arts Council 1968-2017Helly Minarti 42. Festival Dramaturgy Ong Keng Sen43. '100-Days House': Blackout as Political ActionKonstantina Georgelou 44. The Performative InstitutionEdward Scheer45. Punishment and ChaosDavid Pledger PART V: MACHINE46. Maria Lucia Cruz Correia's Urban Action Clinic GARDEN: A Political Ecology with Diplomats of Dissensus and Composite Bodies Engaged in Intra-ActionChristel Stalpaert 47. Docile Subjects: From Theatres of Automata to the Machinery of Twenty-first-century Media Evelyn Wan48. The Human Object in Oriza Hirata's I, Worker and SayonaraSarah Lucie 49. Clarke and Dawe's Mock Interviews and the Politics of DurationYuji Sone50. Exposing the Machinic Present: Rimini Protokoll's Theatre of OperationsTimon Beyes51. Performances of Exposure: Santiago Sierra's Ethical Interruptions Gabriella Calchi Novati 52. VOIDKristof van Baarle 53. Performance in the Biosphere: or, a Theatre of ThingsEddie PatersonPART VI: MESSAGE54. How does the Riot Speak? Sophie Nield55. The Hopeless Courage of Confronting Contemporary Realities: Milo Rau's 'Globally Conceived Theatre of Humanity'Peter M. Boenisch 56. Ibsen as Method: Critical Theatre for the Era of Post-Truth PoliticsAndrew Goldberg 57. Facing Fear: the Radical Reversal of Narratives of RiskSigrid Merx 58. Form and Violence: Beyond Theatrical ContentEero Laine 59. The Message is Maori: The Politics of Haka in PerformanceNicola Hyland60. A Theatre of the Middle Way: Buddhism, Convictions, and Social Engagement in Burma/MyanmarMatthew Yoxall61. Contemporary Chilean Political Theatre between Opacity and Propaganda: the Case of Colectivo Zoologico's DarkFabian Escalona62. Flanerie of the Mind: Beyene Haile's Asmara Play as a Dramaturgy of the StreetChristine Matzke63. Acting on Behalf of Themselves: the Theatrical Politics of Child's PlayBryoni TrezisePART VII: END64. End and IntervalJoe Kelleher 65. 'Stage Managing' Ruins in Lebanon's BorderlandsElla Parry-Davies 66. Striving, Falling, Performing: Phenomenologies of Mood and Apocalypse Peta Tait 67. Plastic Animals in Praxes of Metamorphosis Eve Katsouraki68. Against Staging Apocalyptic Disasters with Butoh Dance: Ohno Yoshito's Flower and Bird/Inside and Outside Hayato Kosuge69. Theatre and Eschatological PoliticsFelipe Cevera 70. Holstein's hair: The Politics of Decadence in The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein's Splat!Adam Alston71. Performance as Infrastructure and Institutional UnlearningsGigi Argyropoulou72. Radically Dead Art in the Beautiful End Times Peter Eckersall PART VIII: RE73. A Chinese Catastrophe? The Moving Target of Political TheatrePaul Rae 74. Preserved by Permafrost: Reanimating and Reimagining Complexity in Canada's Klondike Gold Rush Phoebe Rumsey75. The Situated Performative: Considering the Politics of the Pause in PerformanceAlexa Taylor76. Between Resistance and Consensus: The Mercurial Dramaturgy of The Necessary Stage Melissa Wansin Wong 77. Open Platforms for Dialogue and Difference: Critical Leadership in Singapore TheatreCharlene Rajendran78. Geomnemonic Performance: Activating Political Ontology through Unsettled RemainsDaphna Ben-Shaul 79. Art, Politics and the Promise of Rupture: Reimagining the Manifesto in an Age of OverflowHelena Grehan 80. Re-visit/ Re-Examine/ Re-Contextualise/ Re-Ignite: Protest and Activism as PerformanceSarah Ann Standing 81. Evidencing Slow Making in One-to-One Performance at the Proximity FestivalRenee Newman 82. Re-Inventing a Political Theatre in Burkina Faso Heather Jeanne Denyer Index