This book, now in paperback and with a new preface, 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. JAMES THOMPSON Professor of Applied and Social Theatre at the University of Manchester, UK, Director of 'In Place of War' and a Director of the Centre for Applied Theatre Research. He is author of 'Drama Workshops for Anger Management and Offending Behaviour' (1999), 'Applied Theatre: Bewilderment and Beyond' (2003), 'Digging Up Stories: Applied Theatre', 'Performance and War' and with Jenny Hughes and Michael Balfour, 'Performance In Place of War' (2009). INDICE: Contents - Preface to the Paperback Edition - 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 BodilyAffects - 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 -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-35432-6
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés