Committing Theatre: Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada - Brossura

Filewod, Alan

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ISBN 10: 1926662768 ISBN 13: 9781926662763

Casa editrice: Between the Lines, 2011

Riassunto

Committing Theatre offers the first full-length historical study of political intervention theatre and theatrical spectatorship in English Canada. Building on twenty years of research and engagement in the field, this book's historical narrative frames close-up examples of how theatre artists have intervened in and engaged with political struggle from the mid-19th century to the present. Lumber-camp mock trials, Mayday parades and street protests, the Workers Theatre Movement, agitprop theatre, the counter-culture theatre of the 1960s and 1970s, and more recent anarchist theatre collectives all played a role in a vibrant and unique radical theatre culture that went largely unnoticed, unrecorded, and undocumented by the professional theatre establishment.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Alan Filewod is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph and a recognized authority on Canada's theatre history. He has been involved in political theatre for over thirty years.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Between the Lines
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1926662768
• ISBN 13: 9781926662763
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 364