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With a foreword from Rustom Bharucha, this book is a timely
anthology which aims to unsettle our habituated modes of thinking
about the place of the secular in cultural productions. The last
decade alone has witnessed many religious protests against cultural
productions, which have led, in some cases, to the closure of
theatre and opera performances. Threats to artists led to the exile
of Indian painter, MF Husain, and murder of Dutch film-maker Theo
van Gogh, the controversy over the depiction of the Islamic prophet
Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005 led to the
cancellation of performances of Mozart's Idomeneo for the season.
Offering fresh and provocative readings that probe the limits and
promise of secularity in relation to questions of performance,
politics, and the public sphere, this book will be invaluable to
scholars who seek to understand the dramatic rise of politicized
theology in our new century.
This book offers a unique and much-needed interrogation of the
broader questions surrounding international performance research
which are pertinent to the present and the future of Theatre and
Performance studies. Marking the completion of eight years of the
Erasmus Mundus MA Programme in International Performance Research
(MAIPR) - a programme run jointly by the universities of Warwick
(UK), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Helsinki/Tampere (Finland), Arts in
Belgrade (Serbia), and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) - the
essays in this volume take stock of the achievements, insights and
challenges of what international performance research is or ought
to be about. By reflecting on the discipline of Performance Studies
using the MAIPR programme as a case study in point, the volume
addresses the broader question of the critical link between the
discipline of Performance Studies and humanities education in
general, examining their interactions in the contemporary
university in the context of globalisation.
With a foreword from Rustom Bharucha, this book is a timely
anthology which aims to unsettle our habituated modes of thinking
about the place of the secular in cultural productions. The last
decade alone has witnessed many religious protests against cultural
productions, which have led, in some cases, to the closure of
theatre and opera performances. Threats to artists led to the exile
of Indian painter, MF Husain, and murder of Dutch film-maker Theo
van Gogh, the controversy over the depiction of the Islamic prophet
Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005 led to the
cancellation of performances of Mozart's Idomeneo for the season.
Offering fresh and provocative readings that probe the limits and
promise of secularity in relation to questions of performance,
politics, and the public sphere, this book will be invaluable to
scholars who seek to understand the dramatic rise of politicized
theology in our new century.
Performing European Memories: Trauma, Ethics, Politics explores the
intersections between contemporary European theatre and
performance, the interdisciplinary field of memory studies, and
current preoccupations with the politics of memory in Europe.
Asking whether a genuinely shared European memory is possible while
addressing the dangers of a single homogenised European memory,
this important book examines the contradictions, specificities,
continuities and discontinuities in the European shared and
unshared pasts as represented in the works of Harold Pinter,
Tadeusz Kantor, and Heiner Muller, Andrzej Wajda, Artur Zmijewski
and other European artists. Gluhovic shows different ways in which
these artists engage with the traumatic experiences of the
Holocaust, the Stalinist Gulags, colonialism, and imperialism,
challenge their audiences' historical imagination, and renew their
affective engagement with Europe's past.
Asking whether a genuinely shared European memory is possible while
addressing the dangers of a single, homogenized European memory,
Gluhovic examines the contradictions, specificities, continuities
and discontinuities in the European shared and unshared pasts as
represented in the works of Pinter, Tadeusz Kantor, Heiner Muller
and Artur Zmijewski.
Why has memory become such an important political tool in response
to the challenges of modernity? How can performance be used to
probe and recuperate aspects of the past, and what are the ethical
and political questions that arise when it does so? And how should
the discipline of theatre studies define and deploy the term
'memory' theoretically and in practice? Theory for Theatre Studies:
Memory provides a comprehensive introduction to the intersections
between contemporary theatre and performance, the field of memory
studies and the politics of memory across the globe. Beginning by
offering a fresh critical snapshot of the major theoretical
foundations for the study of memory today, the author presents
vivid theatrical examples drawn from a wide variety of cultural
contexts and compellingly illustrates the centrality of memory for
the theatre as well as the vital role of theatre in transmitting
individual and collective memories. Featuring in-depth case studies
of a range of performance works - including Lola Arias's Minefield,
Yael Ronen's Common Ground and Robert Lepage's The Seven Streams of
the River Ota - it explores how theatre artists have grappled with
issues of memory and the tensions between memory and history. A
final section examines the problematics of memory in a global
context by exploring the subject of migration/immigration. Memory
is supported by further online resources including section
overviews and discussion questions. Online resources to accompany
this book are available at:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/theory-for-theatre-studies-memory-9781474246651/
Why has memory become such an important political tool in response
to the challenges of modernity? How can performance be used to
probe and recuperate aspects of the past, and what are the ethical
and political questions that arise when it does so? And how should
the discipline of theatre studies define and deploy the term
'memory' theoretically and in practice? Theory for Theatre Studies:
Memory provides a comprehensive introduction to the intersections
between contemporary theatre and performance, the field of memory
studies and the politics of memory across the globe. Beginning by
offering a fresh critical snapshot of the major theoretical
foundations for the study of memory today, the author presents
vivid theatrical examples drawn from a wide variety of cultural
contexts and compellingly illustrates the centrality of memory for
the theatre as well as the vital role of theatre in transmitting
individual and collective memories. Featuring in-depth case studies
of a range of performance works - including Lola Arias’s
Minefield, Yael Ronen’s Common Ground and Robert Lepage’s The
Seven Streams of the River Ota - it explores how theatre artists
have grappled with issues of memory and the tensions between memory
and history. A final section examines the problematics of memory in
a global context by exploring the subject of migration/immigration.
Memory is supported by further online resources including section
overviews and discussion questions. Online resources to accompany
this book are available at:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/theory-for-theatre-studies-memory-9781474246651/
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