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Theatre and War 1933-1945 - Performance in Extremis (Paperback)
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Theatre and War 1933-1945 - Performance in Extremis (Paperback)
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On an April evening in 1934, on the River Arno in Florence, an air
squadron, an infantry, a cavalry brigade, fifty trucks, four field
and machine gun batteries, ten field radio stations, and six
photoelectric units presented a piece of theatre. The mass
spectacle, 18 BL involved over two thousand amateur actors and was
performed before an audience of twenty thousand. 18 BL is one of
eleven extraordinary essays collected together for the first time.
The essays have been selected and edited from a wide range of
publications dating from the 1940s to the 1990s. The authors are
academics, cultural historians, and theatre practitioners - some
with direct experience of the harsh conditions of Europe during the
war. Each author critically assesses the function of theatre in
times of world crisis, exploring themes of Fascist aesthetic
propaganda in Italy and Germany, of theatre re-education programmes
in the Gulags of Russia, of cultural "sustenance" for the troops at
the front and interned German refugees in the UK, or cabaret shows
as a currency for survival in Jewish concentration camps.
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