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Performing Crisis : Interdisciplinary Insights on Identity and Existence

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This book responds to, reflects, and re-examines the experience of crisis and its presentation in theatre by bringing together a diversified range of scholarly perspectives. The volume rests on interdisciplinary frameworks that include Performance Studies, Trauma Studies, Memory Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Existential Philosophy, and many more. Through an in-depth study, this volume explores how playwrights, artists, and performance practitioners have analyzed theatrical forms to negotiate identity and reimagine crisis to facilitate survival and transformation.

This volume will be of interest to academicians, young scholars, and students of Theatre Studies, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences, as well as artists and practitioners committed to understanding the radical potential of performance in times of crisis. Overall, this volume is both a theoretical examination and an artistic inquiry into how the performing arts enable us to confront, survive, and interrogate the crises of our time.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781036462956
  • ISBN-10: 1036462951
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publish Date: December 2025
  • Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Page Count: 352

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