Crisis theatre and the Living Newspaper /
| Main Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2024.
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in theatre, performance and the political.
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| Abstract: | Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspapers traces a history of the Living Newspaper as a theatre of crisis from Soviet Russia (1910s), through the Federal Theatre Project of the Great Depression in America (1930s), to Augusto Boal's teatro jornal in Brazil (1970s), and its resonance with documentary forms deployed in the final years of apartheid in South Africa (1990s), up until the present day in the UK (2020s). Across this Element, the author is interested in what a transnational and transhistorical examination of the living newspaper through the lens of crisis reveals about the ways in which theatre can intervene in our collective social, economic and political life. By holding these diverse examples together, the author asserts the Living Newspaper as a form of Crisis Theatre. |
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| Physical Description: | 67 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-67). |
| ISBN: | 9781009525794 1009525794 9781009525817 1009525816 |
| ISSN: | 2753-1236 |