Overview
Committing Theatre offers the first full-length historical study of political intervention theatre and theatrical spectatorship in English Canada. Building on twenty years of research and engagement in the field, this book's historical narrative frames close-up examples of how theatre artists have intervened in and engaged with political struggle from the mid-19th century to the present. Lumber-camp mock trials, Mayday parades and street protests, the Workers Theatre Movement, agitprop theatre, the counter-culture theatre of the 1960s and 1970s, and more recent anarchist theatre collectives all played a role in a vibrant and unique radical theatre culture that went largely unnoticed, unrecorded, and undocumented by the professional theatre establishment.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781926662763
- ISBN-10: 1926662768
- Publisher: Between the Lines(CA)
- Publish Date: September 2011
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
- Page Count: 376
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