Performing Truth: Works of Radical Memory for Times of Social Amnesia

ISBN-13: 9780367490331 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 270 str.

L. M. Bogad

Opis

Performing Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre makers who are wrestling with how to present historical, political or socioeconomic information in an engaging, entertaining and galvanising way.

Spis treści

Preface Plotting Your Radical Memory Adventure - Paloma Martinez-Cruz; Introduction Infectious Dissent: Cultural Vaccines for the Political Pandemic in Progress.; Chapter 1 COINTELSHOW: A Patriot Act; Chapter 2 ECONOMUSIC: Keeping Score; Chapter 3 POSSIBLE PASTS/FORGOTTEN FUTURES: Santiago 9/11/1973; INTERMISSION: A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS; Chapter 4 THE REVOLT OF THE FOOTNOTES; Chapter 5 A FAIR FIGHT; Chapter 6 GGPS: The Guillermo Gómez-Peña Global Positioning System; Chapter 7 THE AUTHORITARIAN BODY: Performing Politicians; Chapter 8 GLAMORGEDDON: Limonauts Gamble for Oakland-land; Chapter 9 A Collection of Street Theatre Scripts

O autorze

L.M. Bogad is Professor of political performance and Chair of the Theatre and Dance Department at UC Davis. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, and author of the books Tactical Performance: The Theory and Practice of Serious Play, Electoral Guerrilla Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements, the plays Orwell's War, Haymarket, and Tahrir, and creator/host of The Plague podcast.