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Performing Paradise: The Living Theatre in France (1968-2018)

Performing Paradise: The Living Theatre in France (1968-2018)

Jouve, Emeline
Cox, Lara

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

Literary CriticismTheater HistoryPlays

ISBN10: 1032574550
ISBN13: 9781032574554
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 27 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Performing Paradise offers a groundbreaking reassessment of one of the most influential yet misunderstood theatrical experiments of the twentieth century.

This illuminating study delves deep into the aesthetic and cultural significance of the Living Theatre's revolutionary production Paradise Now, tracing its journey from its French origins in 1968 through its controversial American tour and into its contemporary legacy. Through meticulous archival research, interviews with original collaborators and witnesses, and participation in modern reconstructions of the work, Emeline Jouve provides unprecedented insights into this landmark of collective creation. The book moves fluidly between historical analysis and contemporary perspective, examining both the original production's radical innovations in form and content and its fiftieth-anniversary revivals in France and Belgium in 2018. By contextualizing Paradise Now within the political landscapes of 1960s protest movements and experimental performance practices on both sides of the Atlantic, Jouve reveals the complex cultural exchanges that shaped this legendary work while dispelling persistent myths surrounding it.

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