"Performing Democracy" explores aspects of a developing form of
performance that works to change social conditions for marginalized
groups or to preserve the traditions and cohesion of the community.
The book combines critical analysis with field reports on specific
projects and productions to explore the issues that confront
community-based performance. The range of topics is impressive, and
includes performances in North America, Australia, the Middle East,
Bosnia, Taiwan, Korea, England, and the Netherlands. Many articles
include production photos.
The book's first section focuses on how performance can contribute
to the definition, creation, and preservation of community. Next,
contributors address issues of authority within the production of
community-based performance. A final section considers
community-based performance's efforts to encourage individuals to
feel empowered in everyday life and in their relation to
government.
The range of performance genres covered includes community history
plays, agitprop, forum theater workshops, puppetry, avant-garde
plays, dance, and oral epics. The projects involve many different
kinds of communities, including the inner city, youth, seniors,
ethnic groups, activists, gays and lesbians, immigrants, and prison
inmates.
Susan Chandler Haedicke is Professor of English, George Washington
University. Tobin Nellhaus is an independent scholar.
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