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Performing (for) Survival: Theatre, Crisis, Extremity
Patrick Duggan (Ed.)
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Description for Performing (for) Survival: Theatre, Crisis, Extremity
Hardback. This book investigates trans-historical and international instances of performance that arise directly out of situations of crisis and extremity to ask what performance is for in such contexts. It explores how people living in oppressive, dangerous or deprived conditions use performance to survive, to express dissent or a desire for change. Editor(s): Peschel, Lisa. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: AN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
This volume gathers contributions from a range of international scholars and geopolitical contexts to explore why people organise themselves into performance communities in sites of crisis and how performance - social and aesthetic, sanctioned and underground - is employed as a mechanism for survival. The chapters treat a wide range of what can be considered 'survival', ranging from sheer physical survival, to the survival of a social group with its own unique culture and values, to the survival of the very possibility of agency and dissent. Performance as a form of political resistance and protest plays a large part in ... Read more
This volume gathers contributions from a range of international scholars and geopolitical contexts to explore why people organise themselves into performance communities in sites of crisis and how performance - social and aesthetic, sanctioned and underground - is employed as a mechanism for survival. The chapters treat a wide range of what can be considered 'survival', ranging from sheer physical survival, to the survival of a social group with its own unique culture and values, to the survival of the very possibility of agency and dissent. Performance as a form of political resistance and protest plays a large part in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
251
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137454263
SKU
V9781137454263
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99-15
About Patrick Duggan (Ed.)
Patrick Duggan is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Surrey, UK. His publications include: Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance (2012); On Trauma, a special issue of the international journal Performance Research (2011); and Reverberations Across Small-Scale British Theatre: Politics, Aesthetics and Forms (2013). Lisa Peschel is Lecturer in Theatre at the University ... Read more
Reviews for Performing (for) Survival: Theatre, Crisis, Extremity
Patrick Duggan and Lisa Peschel's Performing (for) Survival is an important contribution to the study of performance as a mechanism for survival. Its uniqueness lies in its choice to expose the internal workings of communities and politically-organised resistance movements in times of extreme crisis. (Effie Samara, The Kelvingrove Review, Issue 16, June, 2017)