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The Theatricalists: Making Politics Appear

The Theatricalists: Making Politics Appear

Schmidt, Theron

Hardcover

Series: Performance Works

General SociologyTheater History

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ISBN10: 0810147556
ISBN13: 9780810147553
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: Sep 15 2024
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.00
Language: English

Examines how the politics of the theater can illuminate the theatricality of politics

Theatricality is often dismissed as a distraction from real politics, as when cynical political gestures are derided as pure theater or only theater. But the artists and theater companies discussed in this book, including Back to Back Theatre, Tim Crouch, Rabih Mroué, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, and Christoph Schlingensief, take a different approach. Theron Schmidt argues that they represent a theatricalist turn that explores and tests the conditions of the theater itself. Across diverse contexts of political engagement, ranging from disability rights to representations of violence, these theatrical conditions are interconnected with political struggles, such as those over who is seen and heard, how labor is valued, and what counts as political in the first place. In a so-called post-political era, The Theatricalists argues that an examination of theater's internal politics can expand our understanding of the theatricality of politics more broadly.

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