Radical street performance : an international anthology /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Cohen-Cruz, Jan 1950- (επιμελητής.)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London ; New York ; Routledge, 1998
• Θέματα: Θέατρο > Πολιτικές απόψεις; Θέατρο δρόμου; Θέατρο και κοινωνία; Διαδηλώσεις; Τέχνη > Δημόσιοι χώροι

 Street performance has long been a staple of radical and visionary political movements. Typically, theater transports an audience to a reality apart from the everyday. Radical street performance strives to transport everyday reality to something more ideal. Because the spectators are not necessarily predisposed to theater-going, it takes place in public spaces and is usually free of charge. Potentially, street performance creates a bridge between imagined and real actions, often facilitated by staging the event at the very sites of power the performers seek to transform. Radical Street Performance is the first volume to collect the fascinating array of writings by activists, directors, performers, critics, scholars and journalists who have documented political performance in streets around the world. These essays look at performance in Europe, Africa, China, India and both of the Americas, and describe engagements with issues as diverse as abortion, colonialism, the environment and homophobia, to name only a sampling. Including coverage of the highly performative political activities of organizations such as ACT-UP and Greenpeace, the public spectacle of Abbie Hoffman's political radicalism, and the writings of Tolstoy, this is truly a new kind of primer for the study of politics and performance. Radical Street Performance is an inspirational testimony to this international performance tradition, and a valuable record of a form of theater that continues to flourish in an increasingly apolitical and televisual age [Publisher description]. 

 General introduction / Jan Cohen-Cruz -- Theater-in-the-street and theater-in-theaters / Peter Handke -- Part one : Agit-prop -- From Introduction to street art of the revolution / Vladimir Tolstoy -- From Red theater / Edgar Snow -- From The right to perform / Safdar Hashmi -- From Feminist media strategies for political performance / Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz -- Aids crusaders act up a storm / Alisa Solomon -- Marked with red ink / Dubravka Knez̃evic -- Part two : Witness -- Witness : The guerrilla theater of Greenpeace / Steven Durland -- Making a spectacle : the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo / Diana Taylor -- From Border boda or divorce fronterizo? / Marguerite Waller -- At cross-purposes : the church ladies for choice / Jan Cohen-Cruz -- Theater in east Harlem : the outdoor audience gets into the act / Dan Sullivan -- Staging street, streeting stage : Suman Chatterjee and the new Bengali song / Sudipto Chatterjee -- From On the line, a memoir / Hollis Giammatteo --