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The Dark Theatre - A Book About Loss (Hardcover)
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The Dark Theatre - A Book About Loss (Hardcover)
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The Dark Theatre is an indispensable text for activist communities
wondering what theatre might have to do with their futures,
students and scholars across Theatre and Performance Studies, Urban
Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Economy and Social Ecology.
The Dark Theatre returns to the bankrupted warehouse in Hope
(Sufferance) Wharf in London's Docklands where Alan Read worked
through the 1980s to identify a four-decade interregnum of
'cultural cruelty' wreaked by financialisation, austerity and
communicative capitalism. Between the OPEC Oil Embargo and the
first screening of The Family in 1974, to the United Nations report
on UK poverty and the fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017, this volume
becomes a book about loss. In the harsh light of such loss is there
an alternative to the market that profits from peddling
'well-being' and pushes prescriptions for 'self-help', any role for
the arts that is not an apologia for injustice? What if culture
were not the solution but the problem when it comes to the
mitigation of grief? Creativity not the remedy but the symptom of a
structural malaise called inequality? Read suggests performance is
no longer a political panacea for the precarious subject but a loss
adjustor measuring damages suffered, compensations due, wrongs that
demand to be put right. These field notes from a fire sale are a
call for angry arts of advocacy representing those abandoned as the
detritus of cultural authority, second-order victims whose crime is
to have appealed for help from those looking on, audiences of
sorts.
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