The Radical in Performance: Between Brecht and Baudrillard

ISBN-13: 9780415186681 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 268 str.

Baz Kershaw

Opis

Interrogating the crisis in contemporary theatre, this text celebrates the subversive in performance. It explores the link between a western theatre culture which, says Kershaw, is largely past its sell-by-date and the blossoming of postmodern performance, much of which has a genuinely radical edge. In staying determinedly poised between Brecht and Baudrillard, modernity and postmodernism, Baz Kershaw identifies crucial resources for the revitalization of the radical across a wide spectrum of cultural practices. He asks, what next, once political theatre is all but dead, smothered by the promiscuity of the political in postmodern culture? This book should be of interest to anyone searching for a critical catalyst for new ways of viewing and doing cultural politics.

Recenzje

'This book is a fascinating and successful attempt to reclaim the political in theatre and performance whilst acknowledging the collapse of the sustaining myths of modernism. It is radical in its scope, ambition and coverage.' - Jonathan Neelands, Research in Drama Education

Spis treści

Prologue; Introduction; Part I Theatre and performance; Chapter 1 The limits of theatre; Chapter 2 The excesses of performance; Part II Performance, Part Icipation, power; Chapter 3 Fighting in the streets; Chapter 4 The shadow of oppression; Chapter 5 The death of nostalgia; Chapter 6 The sight of the blind; Epilogue;

O autorze

Baz Kershaw is Professor of Drama at the Department of Drama, University of Bristol. He is the author of The Politics of Performance.