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How does protest engage with theatre? What does theatre have to
gain from protest? Theatre and protest are often closely
interlinked in the contemporary cultural and political landscape,
and the line between protest and performance is often difficult to
draw. Yet this relationship is also beset with doubts about
theatre's capacity to intervene in the social world. This fresh and
insightful text thinks through the intersections and tensions
between theatre and protest. Exploring the cross-fertilization of
international theatre and protest across the 12th and 21st
centuries, Lara Shalson illuminates how and why these two are
mutually influencing and enriching forms.
In Performing Endurance, Lara Shalson offers a new way of
understanding acts of endurance in art and political contexts.
Examining a range of performances from the 1960s to the present,
including influential performance art works by Marina Abramovic,
Chris Burden, Tehching Hsieh, Linda Montano, Yoko Ono, and others,
as well as protest actions from the lunch counter sit-ins of the US
civil rights movement to protest camps in the twenty-first century,
this book provides a formal account of endurance and illuminates
its ethical and political significance. Endurance, Shalson argues,
raises vital questions about what it means to exist as a body that
both acts and is acted upon, from ethical questions about how we
respond to the bodies of others to political questions about how we
live in relation to institutions that shape life in fundamental
ways. In addition, Performing Endurance rethinks how performance
itself endures over time.
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