
Theatre and Human Rights
Paul Rae(Author)
Methuen Drama (Publisher)
Published on 2. June 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
104 pages
978-0-230-20524-6 (ISBN)
Description
With its impassioned plays, inspired activism and outspoken artists, the theatre has long provided a venue for promoting and practising human rights; but is this always to the good? Drawing on an international range of examples, this short, sharp and timely book examines the theatre's support for - and challenges to - human rights today.
Reviews / Votes
'[a] brilliant series...these mini paperbacks each give an insightful, focused overview of a key topic...start collecting now.' - Whatsonstage.com '...Palgrave Macmillan's excellent new outward-looking, eclectic Theatre& ... series.These short books, written by leading theatre academics, do much to reintroduce some of the brightest names in theatre academia to the general reader. Plus, the matrix of references to bigger books soon builds quite a comprehensive catch-up reading list for those of us who graduated more than a decade ago and are interested in where contemporary thinking is at...' - Guardian Theatre Blog, September 2009, http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2009/sep/10/theatre-critics-academics-artists 'Fluent, provocative and well paced, it will make an excellent addition to the series' - James Thompson, Professor of Applied and Social Theatre, University of Manchester, UK 'With an intense display of knowledge and expertise, Paul Rae weaves a delicately precise web, connecting the dots between the theatre and human rights, and creates a tapestry of learning that begins with Antigone and extends all the way to contemporary events.' - Rabih Mroue 'For those of us interested in the knotty paradoxes that sit at the core of theatre's meta-theatrical truth-effects - an ethics that is no longer ethics, a politics that is political for how it is yet to be imagined, an idea of the human that displaces itself the moment it is performed - these pithy glimpses at the enigma of what theatre might be doing when it does itself well are timely engagements with some of the twenty-first century's most pressing philosophical preoccupations.' - Review of Theatre & series, Performance ParadigmMore details
Series
Edition
2009
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 111 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
93 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-20524-6 (9780230205246)
DOI
10.1007/978-0-230-36458-5
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
PAUL RAE is Assistant Professor on the Theatre Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore.
Content
Series Editors' Preface.- Foreword; Rabih Mroué.- Introduction: Against Intuition.- PART I: The Human Right to Theatre?.- Rights Talk.- Theatre and the Subject of Human Rights.- Theatre as an Object of Human Rights.- PART II: Thinking Theatre and Human Rights.- ..all too Human.- Paralegal Performance.- Theatre, Culture and Human Rights.- Lucky Me! The Right to Rights.- PART III: Theatres of Cruelty.- Conclusion: Unaccommodated Man.- Further Reading.- Index.