Precariousness and the Performances of Welfare

ISBN-13: 9781138389229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 190 str.

Jenny Hughes

Opis

This book explores precarity in the contexts of theatre practice, theatre and health projects, the community work of regional theatres, arts-led social care initiatives, people’s theatres and youth arts programmes. This book was originally published as a special issue of RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.

Spis treści

Introduction - Theatre and the social factory  1. Performing to understand: cultural wealth, precarity, and shelter-dwelling youth  2. ‘Think differently, get creative’: producing precarity in India’s corporate theater culture industry  3. Birmingham Rep, youth and community, and the products and possibilities of precarity  4. Subverting ableist discourses as an exercise in precarity: a Zimbabwean case study  5. Hard labour and punitive welfare: the unemployed body at work in participatory performance  6. Notes on a theatre commons: Common Wealth’s The Deal Versus the People (2015)  7. Finding a concrete utopia in the dystopia of a ‘sub-city’  8. Rethinking fragile landscapes during the Greek crisis: precarious aesthetics and methodologies in Athenian dance performances  9. Relocating precarity and resiliency within Montreal: the Artists’ Bloc of the Immigrant Workers’ Centre  10. Teatro Valle Occupato: protesting, occupying and making art in contemporary Italy  11. Compassion is dissent  12. In the Limelight: enthusiasm, commitment and need  13. The resilience web  14. Precariousness and groundedness in arts in mental health  15. ‘Days in the Bay’: a short performance devised by the Tiger’s Bay Men’s Group and inspired by the changing streetscape of North Belfast  16. On ‘A Piece for Two (Lovers)’ – an unrehearsed performance piece  17. A people’s theatre for Brighton – an interview with Naomi Alexander