Political and Protest Theatre After 9/11: Patriotic Dissent

ISBN-13: 9780415895514 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 260 str.

Jenny Spencer

Opis

This collection documents and examines political and protest theatre produced between the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and Obama's election in 2008 by British and American artists responding to their own governments' actions and policies during this time.

Spis treści

Editor's Introduction  Part I: Mainstages  1. The 2003-04 Season and Broadway Musical Theatre as a Political Conversant, Stacy Wolf  2. The Ubiquitous Orange Jumpsuit: Staging Iconic Images and the Production of the Commons, Joshua Abrams  3. America as Rogue State: Caryl Churchill’s Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? Amelia Howe Kritzer  4. Terrorized by the War on Terror: Mark Ravenhill’s Shoot/ Get Treasure/ Repeat, Jenny Spencer  5. Unraveling the "Golden Thread": Performing the Politics of Black Watch, Marcia Blumberg  6. Voices of the Other: Documentary and Oral History Performance in Post-9/11 British Theatre, Ryan Claycomb  7. Antiwar Activism and the Structures of Trauma in the Plays of Eve Ensler and Kathryn Blume, Emily Klein  Part II: Alternative Spaces  8. Culture Project’s Iraq War Plays, Jeanne Colleran  9. Descent as Dissent: Arab American Theatrical Responses to 9/11, Dalia Basiouny  10. A View of The Brig: From the Cage to the Street, Katy Ryan  11. Camping on the Streets, Squares and Wastelands Of Power: Theatrical Protest and the ‘War On Terror’ in the UK, Jenny Hughes  12. Patriot Acts: All-American Tactical Performance in the Age of Permawar, L.M. Bogad  13. Performing Citizenship: The Concert for New York City and the Construction of post-9/11 America, Jennifer L. Chan  14. The Maladapted Hothead Paisan: A Lesbian Comedy of Terrors, Sara Warner

O autorze

Jenny Spencer is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Dramatic Strategies in the Plays of Edward Bond (Cambridge UP, 1992), co-author with Jeanne Colleran of Staging Resistance: Essays on Political Theatre (U Michigan P, 1998), and former editor of Theatre Topics.