This volume collates the writings by activists, directors, performers, critics, scholars and journalists who have documented street theatre around the world. The essays explore the forms these performances can take: agit-prop; invisible theatre; demonstrations and rallies; direct action; puppetry; parades and pageants; performance art; guerrilla theatre; and circuses. The essays look at performances in Europe, Africa, China, India and both the Americas. They describe engagement with issues as diverse as abortion, colonialism, the environment and homophobia.
Edited by:
Jan Cohen-Cruz (Syracuse University USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 1.180kg
ISBN: 9780415152310
ISBN 10: 0415152313
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 28 May 1998
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
General introduction; 1: Peter Handke; Part One: Agit-Prop; 1: Introduction; 2: Introduction by Vladimir Tolstoy Documents Edited by Vladimir Tolstoy, Irina Bibikova And Catherine Cooke; 3: Edgar Snow; 4: Safdar Hashmi; 5: Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz; 6: Alisa Solomon; 7: Dubravka Knezevic; Part Two: Witness; 2: Introduction; 8: Steven Durland; 9: Diana Taylor; 10: Marguerite Waller; 11: Jan Cohen-Cruz; 12: Dan Sullivan; 13: Sudipto Chatterjee; 14: Hollis Giammatteo; Part Three: Integration; 3: Introduction; 15: Augusto Boal; 16: Adrian Piper; 17: Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman; 18: from THE DIMENSION OF SOCIAL EXTERIORITY IN THE PRODUCTION; 19: Living on the Street; 20: from TAKING DIRECT ACTION; Part Four: Utopia; 4: Introduction; 21: from Triumph Des Willens (Triumph of the Will, 1935); 22: Notes on Political Street Theatre, Paris; 23: from Letter from the South of Italy; 24: America has more Television Sets than Toilets; 25: from The Street is the Stages; 26: from The Celebratory Performance of John fox and Welfare State International; Part Five: Tradition; 5: Introduction; 27: Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp; 28: Communal Space and Performance in Africa; 29: from The Language of African Theatre; 30: from EL Teatro Campesino and the Mexican Popular Performance Tradition; 31: The Taumbayan as Epic Hero,the Audience as Community; 32: A Queer Circus Amok in New York; 33: Louder than Traffic Bread and Puppet Parades; 34: Notes toward an Unwritten History of Anti-apartheid Street Performance
Reviews for Radical Street Performance: An International Anthology
... Cohen-Cruz has made a valuable contribution by bringing together writings that provide a broad overview of radical performances and public interventions in the 20th century. - The Drama Review
