Research Catalog

Title

Performing (for) survival : theatre, crisis, extremity / edited by Patrick Duggan and Lisa Peschel.

Publication

• Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Duggan, Patrick, 1981-
• Peschel, Lisa, 1965-

Description

xi, 251 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• Theater > Political aspects
• War and theater
• Theater and society

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: performing (for) survival: frameworks and mapping / Patrick Duggan and Lisa Peschel -- Surviving war and exile: national and ethnic identity in performance. Surviving (with) theatre: a history of the elf and eplf cultural troupes in the Eritrean War of Independence / Christine Matzke -- Theatre for survival: art of creation and protection (kubunda) / Ananda Breed and Alice Mukaka -- A space where something might survive: theatre in concentration camps. The cultural life of the Terezin Ghetto in 1960s survivor testimony: theatre, trauma and resilience / Lisa Peschel -- Imagining theatre in Auschwitz: performance, solidarity and survival in the works of Charlotte Delbo / Amanda Stuart Fisher -- Tactics and strategies: dissent under oppressive regimes. Swazzles of subversion: puppets under dictatorship / Cariad Astles -- Against order[s]: dictatorship, absurdism, and the plays of Sony Labou Tansi / Macelle Mahala -- Surviving censorship: El-Hakawati's Mahjoob mahjoob and the struggle for the permission to perform / Samer al-Saber -- Coming in from the outside: theatre, community, crisis. The council estate as hood: SPID Theatre Company and grass-roots arts practice as cultural politics / Katie Bbeswick -- The art of survival: social circus, youth regeneration and projected community in the North East of Scotland / Graham Jeffery, Neill Patton, Kerrie Schaefer and Tom Wakeford -- Crisis and extremity as performance. The paradox of dis/appearance: Hunger strike in Athens as a performance of survival / Aylwyn Walsh -- "Dis-ease" and the performance of radical resistance in the Maze Prison / Patrick Duggan -- Coda: "Je suis Charlie": the afterlife of inspiration / Sophie Nield.

Call Number

MWET 16-2299

ISBN

• 9781137454263
• 1137454261

LCCN

2015026444

OCLC

915056966

Title

Performing (for) survival : theatre, crisis, extremity / edited by Patrick Duggan and Lisa Peschel.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Duggan, Patrick, 1981- editor.

Peschel, Lisa, 1965- editor.

Research Call Number

MWET 16-2299