Richard Boon / Jane Plastow (eds.)

Theatre Matters

Performance and Culture on the World Stage
Herausgeber: Boon, Richard; Bradby, David; Plastow, Jane

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on how theatre can make and has made positive political and social interventions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 377g
• ISBN-13: 9780521634434
• ISBN-10: 0521634431
• Artikelnr.: 22041901

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: a letter from Kingston Wole Soyinka; 1. Introduction Jane
Plastow; 2. 'The Revolution as Muse': drama as surreptitious insurrection
in a post-colonial, military state Femi Osofisan; 3. Making theatre for a
change: two plays of the Eritrean liberation struggle Jane Plastow and
Solomon Tsehaye; 4. Race matters in South African theatre Ian Steadman; 5.
Dreams of violence: moving beyond colonialism in Canadian and Caribbean
drama Christopher Innes; 6. The French-speaking Caribbean: journeying from
the native land Carole-Anne Upton; 7. 'Binglishing' the stage: a generation
of Asian theatre in England Jatinder Verma; 8. Popular theatre for the
building of social awareness: the Indian experience Jacob Srampickal and
Richard Boon; 9. The promise of performance: True Love/Real Love Paul
Heritage; 10. Making America or making revolution: the theatre of Ricardo
Halac in Argentina George Woodyard.