Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of Effect - Couverture souple

Thompson, J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0230354327 ISBN 13 : 9780230354326

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Synopsis

Performance Affects, now in paperback and with a new preface, explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or participatory performance practice. Applied Theatre has traditionally concentrated on effects - impacts, themes communicated or 'truths' revealed. Performance Affects challenges this orientation by suggesting that an affective realm needs to be the focus for a renewed aesthetic, ethical and radical vision of the practice. Performance projects with child soldiers, storytelling programmes in tsunami-affected areas and prison theatre workshops in post-genocide Rwanda are used to demonstrate the limits of a practice reliant solely on effect - and an alternative is suggested: one that encourages a commitment to pleasure, passion and enjoyment as a starting point for a political-aesthetic practice that acknowledges the importance of our affection for others as a stimulus to social change.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

JAMES THOMPSON Professor of Applied and Social Theatre at the University of Manchester, UK, Director of In Place of War and a Director of the Centre for Applied Theatre Research. He is author of Drama Workshops for Anger Management and Offending Behaviour (1999), Applied Theatre: Bewilderment and Beyond (2003), Digging Up Stories: Applied Theatre, Performance and War and with Jenny Hughes and Michael Balfour, Performance In Place of War (2009).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0230354327
• ISBN 13: 9780230354326
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible