What tools do performers use to provoke their
audiences to change?
What is the nature and potential extent of this
change? Provocative
and Transformative Performance looks at the potential of
performance to provoke attitudinal and behavioural
change.
Through a combination of theoretical and practical
research, it
attempts to locate specific characteristics of
performances that may
be both provocative and transformative. Alchemy
permeates the
book, weaving through the analysis as a metaphor for
transformation. The alchemical moment of
projection is particularly significant; this is...