Performance, Trauma and Puerto Rico in Musical Theatre

This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Bilingualism and Translation as Caring Performance
Chapter 2: Caring Performance in Public Art
Chapter 3: Spaces of Care
Chapter 4: Transforming Disaster through Defiant Joy
Afterword
Index

About the author

Colleen Rua is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies in the School of Theatre and Dance at the University of Florida, USA.

Summary

This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico.

Product details

• Authors: Colleen Rua
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032251943
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225194-3
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Dance, Latin America, Musicals, PERFORMING ARTS / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Musicals, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Broadway & Musicals, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting, HISTORY / Latin America / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, DRAMA / Caribbean & Latin American, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Stagecraft & Scenography, Colonialism & imperialism, Writing & editing guides, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, History of the Americas, Performance Art, Writing and editing guides, Theatre Direction & Production, Theatre direction and production, Music of film and stage, Literary studies: postcolonial literature