Theatre Matters - Performance and Culture on the World Stage

Klappentext This book focuses on how theatre can make and has made positive political and social interventions. 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 Boon, Richard (University of Leeds) Plastow Boon, Richard Plastow Boon
• Con la collaborazione di: Richard Boon (Editore), Boon Richard (Editore), David Bradby (Editore), Jane Plastow (Editore), Plastow Jane (Editore), Soyinka Wole (Prefazione)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 10.12.1998
• EAN: 9780521634434
• ISBN: 978-0-521-63443-4
• Pagine: 228
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Modern Th; Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Politics & government, Politics and government