Theatre Matters: Performance and Culture on the World StageJane Plastow, Richard Boon Cambridge University Press, 10/12/1998 - 203 من الصفحات Theatre, in a variety of forms and contexts, can make, and indeed has made, positive political and social interventions in a range of developing cultures across the world. In this book a distinguished team of theatre historians and dramatists, explore how theatre has a dynamic and often difficult relationship with societies and states, arguing positively that theatrical activity can make a difference.The collection begins with a foreword by Wole Soyinka and, through the volume, specially chosen plays, projects and movements are examined in countries such as Brazil and Argentina, Nigeria, Eritrea and South Africa, and India and the Caribbean countries. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The Revolution as Muse drama as surreptitious insurrection in a postcolonial military state | 11 |
Making theatre for a change two plays of the Eritrean liberation struggle | 36 |
Race matters in South African theatre | 55 |
Dreams of violence moving beyond colonialism in Canadian and Caribbean drama | 76 |
The Frenchspeaking Caribbean journeying from the native land | 97 |
Binglishing the stage a generation of Asian theatre in England | 126 |
Popular theatre for the building of social awareness the Indian experience | 135 |
The promise of performance True LoveReal Love | 154 |
Making America or making revolution the theatre of Ricardo Halac in Argentina | 177 |
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