The Politics of Performance: Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention

by Baz Kershaw

The Politics of Performance addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation into post-war alternative and community theatre. It proposes a theory of performace as ideological transaction, cultural intervention and community action, which is used to illuminate the potential social and political effects of radical performance practice. It raises issues about the nature of alternative theatre...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000FBFGNK
• ISBN13: 9780415057639
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.7"