Democracy Theatre And Performance
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Democracy Theatre And Performance
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Author : David Wiles
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-04-30
Democracy Theatre And Performance written by David Wiles and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-30 with Drama categories.
Democracy, argues David Wiles, is actually a form of theatre. In making his case, the author deftly investigates orators at the foundational moments of ancient and modern democracy, demonstrating how their performative skills were used to try to create a better world. People often complain about demagogues, or wish that politicians might be more sincere. But to do good, politicians (paradoxically) must be hypocrites - or actors. Moving from Athens to Indian independence via three great revolutions – in Puritan England, republican France and liberal America – the book opens up larger questions about the nature of democracy. When in the classical past Plato condemned rhetoric, the only alternative he could offer was authoritarianism. Wiles' bold historical study has profound implications for our present: calls for personal authenticity, he suggests, are not an effective way to counter the rise of populism.
Performing Democracy
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Author : Susan C. Haedicke
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2001
Performing Democracy written by Susan C. Haedicke and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
International perspectives on a form of activist, participatory theater with marginalized groups in cities around the world
Performing Antagonism
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Author : Tony Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-01-20
Performing Antagonism written by Tony Fisher and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-20 with Performing Arts categories.
This book combines performance analysis with contemporary political philosophy to advance new ways of understanding both political performance and the performativity of the politics of the street. Our times are pre-eminently political times and have drawn radical responses from many theatre and performance practitioners. However, a decade of conflict in the Middle East and Afghanistan, the eruption of new social movements around the world, the growth of anti-capitalist and anti-globalisation struggles, the upsurge of protests against the blockades of neoliberalism, and the rising tide of dissent and anger against corporate power, with its exorbitant social costs, have left theatre and performance scholarship confronting something of a dilemma: how to theorize the political antagonisms of our day? Drawing on the resources of ‘post-Marxist’ political thinkers such as Chantal Mouffe and Jacques Rancière, the book explores how new theoretical horizons have been made available for performance analysis.
Performance Culture And Athenian Democracy
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Author : Simon Goldhill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-06-13
Performance Culture And Athenian Democracy written by Simon Goldhill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-13 with History categories.
This 1999 book discusses the ways performance is central to the practice and ideology of Athenian democracy.
The Grammar Of Politics And Performance
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Author : Shirin M Rai
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-05
The Grammar Of Politics And Performance written by Shirin M Rai and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-05 with Performing Arts categories.
This volume brings together important work at the intersection of politics and performance studies. While the languages of theatre and performance have long been deployed by other disciplines, these are seldom deployed seriously and pursued systematically to discover the actual nature of the relationship between performance as a set of behavioural practices and the forms and the transactions of these other disciplines. This book investigates the structural similarities and features of politics and performance, which are referred to here as ‘grammar’, a concept which also emphasizes the common communicational base or language of these fields. In each of the chapters included in this collection, key processes of both politics and performance are identified and analyzed, demonstrating the critical and indivisible links between the fields. The book also underlines that neither politics nor performance can take place without actors who perform and spectators who receive, evaluate and react to these actions. At the heart of the project is the ambition to bring about a paradigm change, such that politics cannot be analyzed seriously without a sophisticated understanding of its performance. All the chapters here display a concrete set of events, practices, and contexts within which politics and performance are inseparable elements. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars in both International Relations and Performance Studies.
Theatre And Governance In Britain 1500 1900
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Author : Tony Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-16
Theatre And Governance In Britain 1500 1900 written by Tony Fisher and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-16 with Drama categories.
A critical evaluation of how theatre was assimilated to the interests of government by suppressing 'democratic' disorders associated with the stage.
Legislative Theatre
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Author : Augusto Boal
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-07-28
Legislative Theatre written by Augusto Boal and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-28 with Performing Arts categories.
Augusto Boal's reputation is now moving beyond the realms of theatre and drama therapy, bringing him to the attention of a wider public. Legislative Theatre is the latest and most remarkable stage in his work. 'Legislative Theatre' is an attempt to use Boal's method of 'Forum Theatre' within a political system to create a truer form of democracy. It is an extraordinary experiment in the potential of theatre to affect social change. At the heart of his method of Forum Theatre is the dual meaning of the verb 'to act': to perform and to take action. Forum Theatre invites members of the audience to take the stage and decide the outcome, becoming an integral part of the performance. As a politician in his native Rio de Janeiro, Boal used Forum Theatre to motivate the local populace in generating relevant legislation. In Legislative Theatre Boal creates new, theatrical, and truly revolutionary ways of involving everyone in the democratic process. This book includes: * a full explanation of the genesis and principles of Legislative Theatre * a description of the process in operation in Rio * Boal's essays, speeches and lectures on popular theatre, Paolo Freire, cultural activism, the point of playwrighting, and much else besides.
Theatre Performance And Memory Politics In Argentina
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Author : B. Werth
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-10-25
Theatre Performance And Memory Politics In Argentina written by B. Werth and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-25 with Performing Arts categories.
Since Argentina's transition to democracy, the expression of human fragility on the stage has taken diverse forms. This book examines the intervention of theatre and performance in the memory politics surrounding Argentina's return to democracy and makes a case for performance's transformative power.
Experiments In Democracy
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Author : Cheryl Black
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2016-06
Experiments In Democracy written by Cheryl Black and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06 with History categories.
In Experiments in Democracy, theatre historians explore the ways progressive artists sought to connect isolated racial and cultural groups in pursuit of a more just and democratic society.
The Cambridge Companion To The Age Of Pericles
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Author : Loren J. Samons II
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-01-15
The Cambridge Companion To The Age Of Pericles written by Loren J. Samons II and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-15 with History categories.
Mid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of Athenian democracy through the empowerment of poorer citizens, the adornment of the city through a massive and expensive building program, the classical age of Athenian tragedy, the assembly of intellectuals offering novel approaches to philosophical and scientific issues, and the end of the Spartan-Athenian alliance against Persia and the beginning of open hostilities between the two greatest powers of ancient Greece. The Athenian statesman Pericles both fostered and supported many of these developments. Although it is no longer fashionable to view Periclean Athens as a social or cultural paradigm, study of the history, society, art, and literature of mid-fifth-century Athens remains central to any understanding of Greek history. This collection of essays reveal the political, religious, economic, social, artistic, literary, intellectual, and military infrastructure that made the Age of Pericles possible.