Acting like it matters : John Malpede and the Los Angeles Poverty Department /
"For thirty years John Malpede and the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD), have created electrifying political theater by confounding audience expectations. Made up largely of homeless and formerly homeless men and women from L.A.'s Skid Row, LAPD has evolved from staging "happenin...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[North Charleston, South Carolina] :
Streetwise Press,
[2015]
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| Summary: | "For thirty years John Malpede and the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD), have created electrifying political theater by confounding audience expectations. Made up largely of homeless and formerly homeless men and women from L.A.'s Skid Row, LAPD has evolved from staging "happenings" on street corners and in shelters to taking complex ensemble pieces to cities across the United States, Europe and Latin America. Instead of creating illusions, the LAPD strips them away. LAPD actors know first-hand about poverty, addiction, crime, homelessness, class prejudice and the political hypocrisy that sustains them. Life on the street leaves no room for irony. LAPD members, voiceless most of their lives, now given a voice and an audience, cut straight to the heart of the American social and economic dilemmas" |
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| Physical Description: | 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1507504233 9781507504239 |