Performance Affects - Applied Theatre and the End of Effect (Paperback)

Performance Affects, 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. Applied Theatre has traditionally concentrated on effects - impacts, themes communicated or 'truths' revealed. Performance Affects challenges this orientation by suggesting that an affective realm needs to be the focus for a renewed aesthetic, ethical and radical vision of the practice. Performance projects with child soldiers, storytelling programmes in tsunami-affected areas and prison theatre workshops in post-genocide Rwanda are used to demonstrate the limits of a practice reliant solely on effect - and an alternative is suggested: one that encourages a commitment to pleasure, passion and enjoyment as a starting point for a political-aesthetic practice that acknowledges the importance of our affection for others as a stimulus to social change.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	J. Thompson
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	205
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-35432-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Peace studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Social impact of disasters > General
LSN:	0-230-35432-7
Barcode:	9780230354326

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