Theatre & festivals /

• Main Author: Zaiontz, Keren (συγγραφέας)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Bloomsbury, 2018.
• Series: Theatre&
• Subjects: Φεστιβάλς παραστατικών τεχνών.; Θέατρο και κοινωνία; Φεστιβάλς.

This succinct and engaging text rethinks the common wisdom that festivals, sites of collective celebration and play, provide a temporary reprieve from the grind of everyday, 'real' life. Keren Zaiontz explores the ways in which cultural performances of resistance that have their basis in f...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Jenny Sealey
• Foreword by Alex Bulmer
• Introduction
• The myth of opposition
• Play and practicality
• The festival in the marketplace
• Conclusion
• Further reading
• Index
• Acknowledgements.