Modern popular theatre /
This book offers a concise history of popular theater since the early twentieth century. Using key popular culture theories and critical perspectives, it analyzes popular theaters across different cultural and political contexts. It introduces and critically examines a range of international artists...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2016]
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| Series: | Theatre and performance practices.
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| Summary: | This book offers a concise history of popular theater since the early twentieth century. Using key popular culture theories and critical perspectives, it analyzes popular theaters across different cultural and political contexts. It introduces and critically examines a range of international artists and theater-makers who have worked with popular forms, including Vsevolod Meyerhold, Blue Blouse, Bertolt Brecht, Erwin Piscator, the San Francisco Mime Troupe and the Bread and Puppet Theater. Jason Price addresses the uses of cabaret, puppetry and circus outside their native popular contexts, examining the role they play in avantgarde and experimental theater practices. In doing so, this book encourages readers to look beyond popular theater as a simple form of entertainment and to consider its potential as a form of political activism, a community-builder and as a valuable tool for artistic expression. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 216 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0230368948 9780230368941 9780230368958 0230368956 |