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Item Details
Title:
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PERFORMANCE AFFECTS
APPLIED THEATRE AND THE END OF EFFECT |
By: |
James Thompson |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£58.20 |
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ISBN 10: |
0230242421 |
ISBN 13: |
9780230242425 |
Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
Pub. date: |
28 April, 2009 |
Description: |
Performance Affects 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, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from effects towards an affective role, connected to sensations of pleasure. |
Synopsis: |
Performance Affects 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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UK |
Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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