Radical Doubt investigates ethical play across a spectrum of performances, on and off the stage. In witty, recursive, personal, and propulsive prose, Mady Schutzman elaborates on the Joker System, conceived by Augusto Boal, best known for Theatre of the Oppressed. The Joker System is a collaborative approach to representing social dilemmas through a rare fusion of destabilizing ambiguity and journalistic rigor. Schutzman models the Joker System while expanding well beyond the theatrical. In polyphonic compositions that perform their own philosophy, she uncovers illuminating links between calculus and conjuring, koans and resistance, humor and witnessing, complexity theory and sorely needed new practices of living in our divisive times. These life practices rely upon crafty and circuitous strategies to deliver their subversive punch. Jok(er)ing matters, Schutzman insists. When communities fragment and identities fixate, enter the trickster!
Sonja KuftinecTheatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota
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Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Professional
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgments
Introduction The joker runs wild
SECTION I The Joker System on the stage
Chapter 1 What a riot!
Chapter 2 UPSET!
SECTION II The Joker System off the stage
Chapter 3 Being approximate: the Ganser syndrome and beyond
Chapter 4 What we talk about when we talk about community
Part I Ritual: play, paradox, and communitas
Part II Joint work, joke work
Part III A case study: Llano del Rio
Chapter 5 Encyclopedia of radical doubt
Chapter 6 The joker never dies: the world "as if"
(In)conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Mady Schutzman is a writer, scholar, theatre artist, and filmmaker. She is author of The Real Thing: Performance, Hysteria, and Advertising and co-editor, with Jan Cohen-Cruz, of two anthologies on the work of Augusto Boal. Schutzman is Faculty Emerita at California Institute of the Arts.
