Theatre Matters - Performance and Culture on the World Stage

Zusammenfassung This book focuses on how theatre can make! and indeed has made! positive political and social interventions in a range of developing cultures. Essays examine particular plays! projects or movements from areas such as South America! Africa! the Caribbean and India. Contributors include Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: a letter from Kingston Wole Soyinka; 1. Introduction Jane Plastow; 2. 'The Revolution as Muse': drama as surreptitious insurrection in a post-colonial, military state Femi Osofisan; 3. Making theatre for a change: two plays of the Eritrean liberation struggle Jane Plastow and Solomon Tsehaye; 4. Race matters in South African theatre Ian Steadman; 5. Dreams of violence: moving beyond colonialism in Canadian and Caribbean drama Christopher Innes; 6. The French-speaking Caribbean: journeying from the native land Carole-Anne Upton; 7. 'Binglishing' the stage: a generation of Asian theatre in England Jatinder Verma; 8. Popular theatre for the building of social awareness: the Indian experience Jacob Srampickal and Richard Boon; 9. The promise of performance: True Love/Real Love Paul Heritage; 10. Making America or making revolution: the theatre of Ricardo Halac in Argentina George Woodyard.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Richard (University of Leeds) Plastow Boon, Richard Plastow Boon
• Con la collaborazione di: Richard Boon (Editore), Boon Richard (Editore), Jane Plastow (Editore), Plastow Jane (Editore), Soyinka Wole (Prefazione)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 10.12.1998
• EAN: 9780521630542
• ISBN: 978-0-521-63054-2
• Pagine: 228
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Modern Th; Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Politics & government, Politics and government