Jenny Hughes

Performance in a time of terror

Critical mimesis and the age of uncertainty

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ways in which performance has given shape and form to wars on terror past and present, focusing on examples of performed violence from Northern Ireland and Iraq. It also investigates how theatre-makers and performance activists have resisited violence in times of terror.a.

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Produktdetails

• Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 291g
• ISBN-13: 9780719085307
• ISBN-10: 0719085306
• Artikelnr.: 34011430

Autorenporträt

Jenny Hughes is Professor in Drama at the University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgements Illustrations Prologue: A race across the desert
1 Searching for a politics of performance in an age of uncertainty 2 A
beheading in Iraq: Medusa, the mirror and a performance of exception 3
Counterinsurgency performance in Northern Ireland:
street-crowd-balcony-scenes and the ob-scene 4 A crisis of voice:
democratic performance on the London stage 5 Camping up and camping out as
antiwar protest performance 6 Performance, counterterrorism and community:
cops, neighbours, lovers and double agents Epilogue: Critical mimesis,
refuse and waste References