Committing Theatre Contributor(s): Filewod, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1926662768 ISBN-13: 9781926662763 Publisher: Between the Lines(CA) OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - Drama | Canadian - History | Canada - General |
Dewey: 792.097 |
LCCN: 2011459763 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.20 lbs) 376 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Committing Theatre offers the first full-length historical study of political intervention theatre and theatrical spectatorship in English Canada. Building on twenty years of research and engagement in the field, this book's historical narrative frames close-up examples of how theatre artists have intervened in and engaged with political struggle from the mid-19th century to the present. Lumber-camp mock trials, Mayday parades and street protests, the Workers Theatre Movement, agitprop theatre, the counter-culture theatre of the 1960s and 1970s, and more recent anarchist theatre collectives all played a role in a vibrant and unique radical theatre culture that went largely unnoticed, unrecorded, and undocumented by the professional theatre establishment. |