From Theatre & Everyday Life to Theatre in the Expanded Field: Performance Between Community and Immunity
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Alan Read
Abstract
Immunisation, Immersion and Installation are the three nodes to this paper which taken together generate some questions for theatre and its politics. The paper considers the claims made for a special status for theatre as a pre-eminently social, communitarian act, claims that deflect the more pressing question of why the theatre always, by definition fails in its political aspirations.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Special Issue: Theatre and Politics: Theatre as Cultural Intervention
- Articles
- Intervention, Interaction, Insufficiency: Theatre’s Critical Repertoire?
- From Theatre & Everyday Life to Theatre in the Expanded Field: Performance Between Community and Immunity
- Between Homeland and Exile: Witnessing the Homo Sacer at the Heart of Hotel Medea
- Gob Squad’s Act of Rebellion – Revolution Now!
- Remixing Politics: The Case of Headphone-Verbatim Theatre in Britain
- Navigating New Patterns of Power with an Audience
- “This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England”: Staging Treatments of Riots in Recent British Theatre
- Bola Agbaje’s Off the Endz. Authentic Voices, Representing the Council Estate: Politics, Authorship and the Ethics of Representation
- Staging the unsayable: debbie tucker green’s political theatre
- (Sub)Versions of the Them/Us Dichotomy in Iraq War Drama
- Going Straight: The Politics of Time and Space in David Eldridge’s Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness
- New Plays of Ideas and an Aesthetics of Reflection and Debate in Contemporary British Political Drama
- Howard Brenton and the Improbable Revival of the Brechtian History Play
- “Surreal and unbelievable and fantastical”
- Reviews
- Elżbieta Baraniecka. Sublime Drama: British Theatre of the 1990s. CDE Studies 23. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013, x + 270 pp., € 82.95.
- Jeanne Colleran. Theatre and War: Theatrical Responses since 1991. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 241 pp., $ 90.00.
- Astrid Haas. Stages of Agency: The Contributions of American Drama to the AIDS Discourse. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2011, 334 pp., € 38.00.
- Barbara Ozieblo and Noelia Hernando-Real (eds.). Performing Gender Violence: Plays by Contemporary American Women Dramatists. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, vi + 198 pp., $ 85.00.
- Patrick Duggan. Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2012, ix + 214 pp., $ 88.00.
- Philip C. Kolin (ed.). Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: A Casebook. London and New York: Routledge, 2012, x + 207 pp., £ 80.00 (hardback, 2007), £ 28.00 (paperback, 2012), £ 28.00 (ebook, 2007).
- Helen H. Lojek. The Spaces of Irish Drama: Stage and Place in Contemporary Plays. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, x + 181 pp., £ 55.00 (hardback).
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Special Issue: Theatre and Politics: Theatre as Cultural Intervention
- Articles
- Intervention, Interaction, Insufficiency: Theatre’s Critical Repertoire?
- From Theatre & Everyday Life to Theatre in the Expanded Field: Performance Between Community and Immunity
- Between Homeland and Exile: Witnessing the Homo Sacer at the Heart of Hotel Medea
- Gob Squad’s Act of Rebellion – Revolution Now!
- Remixing Politics: The Case of Headphone-Verbatim Theatre in Britain
- Navigating New Patterns of Power with an Audience
- “This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England”: Staging Treatments of Riots in Recent British Theatre
- Bola Agbaje’s Off the Endz. Authentic Voices, Representing the Council Estate: Politics, Authorship and the Ethics of Representation
- Staging the unsayable: debbie tucker green’s political theatre
- (Sub)Versions of the Them/Us Dichotomy in Iraq War Drama
- Going Straight: The Politics of Time and Space in David Eldridge’s Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness
- New Plays of Ideas and an Aesthetics of Reflection and Debate in Contemporary British Political Drama
- Howard Brenton and the Improbable Revival of the Brechtian History Play
- “Surreal and unbelievable and fantastical”
- Reviews
- Elżbieta Baraniecka. Sublime Drama: British Theatre of the 1990s. CDE Studies 23. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013, x + 270 pp., € 82.95.
- Jeanne Colleran. Theatre and War: Theatrical Responses since 1991. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 241 pp., $ 90.00.
- Astrid Haas. Stages of Agency: The Contributions of American Drama to the AIDS Discourse. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2011, 334 pp., € 38.00.
- Barbara Ozieblo and Noelia Hernando-Real (eds.). Performing Gender Violence: Plays by Contemporary American Women Dramatists. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, vi + 198 pp., $ 85.00.
- Patrick Duggan. Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2012, ix + 214 pp., $ 88.00.
- Philip C. Kolin (ed.). Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: A Casebook. London and New York: Routledge, 2012, x + 207 pp., £ 80.00 (hardback, 2007), £ 28.00 (paperback, 2012), £ 28.00 (ebook, 2007).
- Helen H. Lojek. The Spaces of Irish Drama: Stage and Place in Contemporary Plays. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, x + 181 pp., £ 55.00 (hardback).
