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Committing Theatre
Contributor(s): Filewod, Alan (Author)
ISBN: 1926662768     ISBN-13: 9781926662763
Publisher: Between the Lines(CA)
OUR PRICE:   $17.96  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: September 2011
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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
 
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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.