Crisis Theatre and the Living Newspaper

Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspapers traces a history of the living newspaper as a theatre of crisis from Soviet Russia (1910s), through the Federal Theatre Project of the Great Depression in America (1930s), to Augusto Boal's teatro jornal in Brazil (1970s), and its resonance with documentary forms deployed in the final years of apartheid in South Africa (1990s), up until the present day in the UK (2020s). Across this Element, the author is interested in what a transnational and transhistorical examination of the living newspaper through the lens of crisis reveals about the ways in which theatre can intervene in our collective social, economic and political life. By holding these diverse examples together, the author asserts the Living Newspaper as a form of Crisis Theatre.

List of contents

1. Introduction: the front page; 2. Global crises and material interventions; 3. The world in pictures: newspaper aesthetics and collective world-making; 4. Site specific meets digital theatre: the living newspaper as mediated performance; 5. Crisis time(s), temporality and the living newspaper; 6. Conclusion: the living newspaper as crisis theatre; Bibliography.

Summary

This Element describes what a transnational and transhistorical examination of the living newspaper through the lens of crisis reveals about the ways in which theatre can intervene in our collective social, economic and political life. We can thus assert the Living Newspaper as a form of Crisis Theatre.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Bartley, Sarah (Royal Central School of Speech and Bartley, Sarah (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) Bartley, Sarah Mullan, Sarah (University of Northampton) Mullan, Sarah Jane Mullan, Sarah Jane (University of Northampton) Bar Mullan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781009525817
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0952581-7
• No. of pages: 76
• Series: Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, DRAMA / General, Social & cultural history, Press & journalism, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Theatre Studies, Infectious & contagious diseases, Media studies: Journalism, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, History of Performing Arts, Human coronaviruses