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oapen-20.500.12657-881792024-04-09T00:00:00Z Developing Theatre in the Global South Leonhardt, Nic Balme, Christopher B. theatre;theatre studies;performing arts;historiography;cultural studies;theatre direction;workshops;Global South;decolonization;Africa;Asia;Middle East;Latin America;post-1945professional theatre;technopolitics;Augusto Boal;Efua Sutherland;Albert Botbol;Severino Montano;Metin And;cultural infrastructure;national theatres;workshop;theatrical epistemic community;US philanthropy;pan-African festivals thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods::NHAH Historiography thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies Drawing on new research from the ERC project ‘Developing Theatre’, this collection presents innovative institutional approaches to the theatre historiography of the Global South since 1945. Covering perspectives from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Eastern Europe, the chapters explore how US philanthropy, international organisations and pan-African festivals all contributed to the globalisation and institutionalisation of the performing arts in the Global South. During the Cultural Cold War, the Global North intervened in and promoted forms of cultural infrastructure that were deemed adaptable to any environment. This form of technopolitics impacted the construction of national theatres, the introduction of new pedagogical tools and the invention of the workshop as a format. The networks of 'experts; responsible for this foreground seminal figures, both celebrated (Augusto Boal, Efua Sutherland) but also lesser known (Albert Botbol, Severino Montano, Metin And), who contributed to the worldwide theatrical epistemic community of the postwar years. Developing Theatre in the Global South investigates the institutional factors that led to the emergence of professional theatre in the postwar period throughout the decolonising world. The book’s institutional and transnational approach enables theatre studies to overcome its still strong national and local focus on plays and productions, and connect it to current discourses in transnational and global history. 2024-03-05T10:04:22Z 2024-03-05T10:04:22Z 2024 book 9781800085756 9781800085763 9781800085770 9781787358539 9781787359154 9781911307730 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88179 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9781800085749.pdf UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781800085749 10.14324/111.9781800085749 df73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2 9781800085756 9781800085763 9781800085770 9781787358539 9781787359154 9781911307730 278 London open access
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Drawing on new research from the ERC project ‘Developing Theatre’, this collection presents innovative institutional approaches to the theatre historiography of the Global South since 1945. Covering perspectives from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Eastern Europe, the chapters explore how US philanthropy, international organisations and pan-African festivals all contributed to the globalisation and institutionalisation of the performing arts in the Global South. During the Cultural Cold War, the Global North intervened in and promoted forms of cultural infrastructure that were deemed adaptable to any environment. This form of technopolitics impacted the construction of national theatres, the introduction of new pedagogical tools and the invention of the workshop as a format. The networks of 'experts; responsible for this foreground seminal figures, both celebrated (Augusto Boal, Efua Sutherland) but also lesser known (Albert Botbol, Severino Montano, Metin And), who contributed to the worldwide theatrical epistemic community of the postwar years.
Developing Theatre in the Global South investigates the institutional factors that led to the emergence of professional theatre in the postwar period throughout the decolonising world. The book’s institutional and transnational approach enables theatre studies to overcome its still strong national and local focus on plays and productions, and connect it to current discourses in transnational and global history.
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