Performance Affects

Applied Theatre and the End of Effect
2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-35432-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 205 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 283 g

Performance Affects explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or participatory performance practice, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from effects towards an affective role, connected to sensations of pleasure.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thompson, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Acknowledgments PART I: THE END OF EFFECT Introduction: Hedonism is a Bunker Incidents of Cutting and Chopping The End of the Story? Academic Scriptwriters and Bodily Affects PART II: PERFORMANCE AFFECTS Performance Affects: A Kind of Triumph The Call of Beauty: An Affective Invitation About Face: Disturbing the Fabric of the Sensible Conclusion: Let Them Slide Endnotes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

JAMES THOMPSON Professor of Applied and Social Theatre at the University of Manchester, UK, Director of and a Director of the Centre for Applied Theatre Research. He is author of (1999), (2003), , and with Jenny Hughes and Michael Balfour, (2009).