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Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of Effect
J. Thompson
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Description for Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of Effect
Paperback. This book, now in paperback and with a new preface, explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or participatory performance practice, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from effects towards an affective role. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: AN; GTJ; JFFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 288.
Performance Affects explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or participatory performance practice, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from effects towards an affective role, connected to sensations of pleasure.
Performance Affects explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or participatory performance practice, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from effects towards an affective role, connected to sensations of pleasure.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
288g
Number of Pages
205
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230354326
SKU
V9780230354326
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Ref
99-15
About J. Thompson
JAMES THOMPSON Professor of Applied and Social Theatre at the University of Manchester, UK, Director of In Place of War and a Director of the Centre for Applied Theatre Research. He is author of Drama Workshops for Anger Management and Offending Behaviour (1999), Applied Theatre: Bewilderment and Beyond (2003), Digging Up Stories: Applied Theatre, Performance and War and with Jenny ... Read more
Reviews for Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of Effect
'Drawing on his own workshops in Sri Lanka in 2000 and research in Rwandan prisons, Thompson builds a moving and often disturbing picture of how theatre can be used for political ends' - What's On Stage.com 'Performance Affects, focusing on the aesthetics and politics of performance in sites of war, disaster, and crisis, will be of immediate ... Read more