Rehearsing for Life: Theatre for Social Change in Nepal

ISBN-13: 9781108416115 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 296 str.

Monica Mottin

Opis

This work presents an account of what it means to perform theatre and live by theatre, grounded in ethnographic research.

Spis treści

List of tables, Figures and boxes; Acknowledgements; 1. Theatre and life: theatre at the intersection of art, politics and international development; 2. Spacing out to dpeak up: resistance, protest and the emergence of street theatre; 3. The streets become the stage: performance, protest and theatre in a time of political crisis; 4. Kachahari Natak: fragments of an aesthetics of theatre for social change; 5. Activism not development work: explorations in Tharu kachahari natak; 6. A cultural army for a cultural revolution: Maoist cultural programmes and revolutionary theatre; 7. The ordinariness of the special: towards the professionalization of theatre work; 8. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.