Describes peacebuilding performances in different regions of the world fractured by war and violence.

Analyzes audio recordings of interwar Hebrew plays, providing a new model for the use of sound in theater studies. Possessed Voices tells the intriguing story of a largely unknown collection of audio recordings, which preserve performances of modernist interwar Hebrew plays. Ruthie Abeliovich focuses on four recordings: a 1931 recording of The Eternal Jew (1919/1923), a 1965 recording of The Dybbuk (1922), a 1961 radio play of The Golem (1925), and...

"Amidst Oxford Dictionaries declaring 'post-truth' the word of the year in 2016, and the fast propagation of terms like 'fake news,' the central question of this book is pressingly important at this contemporary critical juncture: What feels real to contemporary audiences? Using seventy interviews with audience members about the perceived realness of their experiences attending documentary, participatory, historical, or immersive theatre pieces, this...

"Why theatre now? Reflecting on the mix of challenges and opportunities that face theatre in communities that are necessarily becoming global in scope and technologically driven, In Defence of Theatre offers a range of passionate reflections on this important question. Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman bring together nineteen playwrights, actors, directors, scholars, and educators who discuss the role that theatre can--and must--play in professional,...

Drawing on the writer's experience of three and a half decades of performing, teaching and writing theatre, this book explores the performance practice of a theatre group (pandies' theatre, Delhi) by placing this practice in a frame of international activist theatre movements. The teaching aspect provides a historical backdrop and the writing of plays adds depth and sharpens the political position. It identifies theatre as a force for changing society...

"Contains a chronology, introduction, list of acronyms and abbreviations, in-depth chronology, appendixes, and more than 700 cross-references dictionary entries on African American theater"--

Examines the notion of theatricality in relation to film, theatre, art, and contemporary mediaThis is the first book collection to consider the notion of theatricality across a range of fields (art, film, theatre, multimedia, photography, music). The collection engages with a wide range of case studies, examples of which include:theatre productions by Forced Entertainment, Daniel Kitson, She Pop, and Agnieszka Piotrowskaart works by Rembrandt, Damien...