- Additional Authors
- Spencer, Jenny S.
- Description
- x, 245 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This collection documents and examines political and protest theatre produced between the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and Obama's election in 2008 by British and American artists responding to their own governments' actions and policies during this time.
- Series Statement
- Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 21
- Uniform Title
- Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 21.
- Alternative Title
- Political and protest theater after 9/11
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Mainstages. The 2003-2004 season and Broadway musical theatre as a political conversant / Stacy Wolf -- The ubiquitous orange jumpsuit: staging iconic images and the production of the Commons / Josh Abrams -- America as rogue state: Caryl Churchill's Drunk enough to say I love you? / Amelia Howe Kritzer -- Terrorized by the War on Terror: Mark Ravenhill's Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat / Jenny Spencer -- Unraveling the golden thread: performing the politics of Black Watch / Marcia Blumberg -- Voices of the other: documentary and oral history performance in post-9/11 British theatre / Ryan Claycomb -- Alternative spaces. Antiwar activism and the structures of trauma in the plays of Eve Ensler and Kathryn Blume / Emily Klein -- Why we have failed: Culture Project's Iraq War plays / Jeanne Colleran -- Descent as dissent: Arab American theatrical responses to 9/11 / Dalia Basiouny -- A view of The brig: from the cage to the street / Katy Ryan -- Camping on the streets, squares, and wastelands of power: theatrical protest and the "War On Terror" in the U.K. / Jenny Hughes -- Patriot acts: all-American tactical performance in the Age of Permawar / L.M. Bogad -- Performing citizenship: The Concert for New York City and the construction of post-9/11 America / Jennifer L. Chan -- The maladapted Hothead paisan: a lesbian comedy of terrors / Sara Warner.
- Call Number
- MWET 13-1264
- ISBN
- 9780415895514 (alk. paper)
- 0415895510 (alk. paper)
- 9780415745703
- 0415745705
- LCCN
- 2011030230
- OCLC
- 698324490
- Title
Political and protest theatre after 9/11 : patriotic dissent / edited by Jenny Spencer.
- Imprint
New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Series
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 21
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 21.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
Spencer, Jenny S.
- Research Call Number
MWET 13-1264