Theatre and Revolution
Global Perspectives on Performance
Published on 12. December 2025
296 pages
978-1-040-76831-0 (ISBN)
Description
Theatre and Revolution explores the dynamic and complex relationship between theatrical expression and revolutionary movements across diverse historical and cultural landscapes.
This illuminating volume examines the intricate connections between theater and revolution through a global lens, featuring scholarly essays that analyze performances during revolutionary periods and theater's role in preserving, transmitting, and reimagining revolutionary histories. Organized around three key paradigms - theater as an archive of past revolutions, revolutionary time, and revolutionary spaces - the collection offers rich insights into revolutionary and performance practices across Chile, China, Cuba, Egypt, France, Germany, the Caribbean, Iran, Mexico, Russia, the United States, Venezuela, and beyond. Through careful analysis of site-specific examples, the book reveals how theatrical expressions both document and actively participate in revolutionary processes, highlighting the uncanny parallels and stark differences in how revolution manifests through performance across different cultural contexts.
This book will appeal to scholars and students in theater and performance studies, history, political science, and cultural studies who seek to understand how revolutionary movements are embodied, remembered, and reimagined through theatrical practice.
This illuminating volume examines the intricate connections between theater and revolution through a global lens, featuring scholarly essays that analyze performances during revolutionary periods and theater's role in preserving, transmitting, and reimagining revolutionary histories. Organized around three key paradigms - theater as an archive of past revolutions, revolutionary time, and revolutionary spaces - the collection offers rich insights into revolutionary and performance practices across Chile, China, Cuba, Egypt, France, Germany, the Caribbean, Iran, Mexico, Russia, the United States, Venezuela, and beyond. Through careful analysis of site-specific examples, the book reveals how theatrical expressions both document and actively participate in revolutionary processes, highlighting the uncanny parallels and stark differences in how revolution manifests through performance across different cultural contexts.
This book will appeal to scholars and students in theater and performance studies, history, political science, and cultural studies who seek to understand how revolutionary movements are embodied, remembered, and reimagined through theatrical practice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
7 Halftones, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white
File size
9,80 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-76831-0 (9781040768310)
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Logan J. Connors | Lillian Manzor | Emily Sahakian
Theatre and Revolution
Global Perspectives on Performance
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Persons
Logan J. Connors is Professor and Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami, USA.
Lillian Manzor is Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies. She is the Director of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas at the University of Miami, USA and founding director of the Cuban Theater Digital Archive (www.cubantheater.org).
Emily Sahakian is Associate Professor of Theater and French, jointly appointed in the Departments of Theatre & Film and Romance Languages, at the University of Georgia, USA.
Lillian Manzor is Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies. She is the Director of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas at the University of Miami, USA and founding director of the Cuban Theater Digital Archive (www.cubantheater.org).
Emily Sahakian is Associate Professor of Theater and French, jointly appointed in the Departments of Theatre & Film and Romance Languages, at the University of Georgia, USA.
Content
Contributor Biographies
Acknowledgements
"Introduction: Archives, Temporalities, and Spaces of Revolution"
Logan J. Connors, Lillian Manzor, Emily Sahakian
I. Performance Archives, Repertoires, and Memories of Revolution
Chapter 1
"Of Riots and Representations: The Case of Auguste Macouba's Play Eia! Man-maille la!"
Andy Stafford
Chapter 2
"Rocking the Canboulay: Trinidad's Jamette Carnival Outside the Shadow of Revolt"
Stephen Cedars
Chapter 3
"The National Discourse of a Revolution: Theatrical Censorship and Chavismo Performativity"
Neta Kanny
Chapter 4
"Performing Tropicana: Cuban-American Theater Between Memory and Revolution"
Lilianne Lugo Herrera
Chapter 5
"Theater Adaptation as a Critical Reservoir of the Mexican Revolution's Memories in Mendoza by Los Colochos Teatro"
Maritza Beatriz Garcia Rodriguez
II. Ruptures and Repetitions of Revolutionary Time
Chapter 6
"Repeat Performances: Rehearsing the French Revolution in Late Qing Chinese Theater"
Cecilia Feilla
Chapter 7
"Revolutionary Avant-Garde Puppetry from Germany, through Japan, to China"
Siyuan Liu
Chapter 8
"Heiner Mueller, The Mission, and Revolutionary Time"
Liam Johnston-McCondach
Chapter 9
"Performing Revolution in the Age of Revolutions: Guillaume Tell across the Revolutionary Chasm"
Marc H. Lerner
Chapter 10
"Revolutionary Time in Edouard Glissant's Monsieur Toussaint and Maryse Conde's An tan revolisyon"
Soraya Limare
III. Places and Spaces of Revolutionary Performance
Chapter 11
"Three Stages of Iranian Theater in Revolution"
Yassaman Khajehi
Chapter 12
"Spatial Interventions and Material Re-appropriations: Resisting the Aestheticization of Reality in the New York Young Lords' Garbage Offensive(s)"
Briana Beeman
Chapter 13
"Retaking Chile: Theater and Space in Authoritarian Times"
Melissa Gonzalez-Contreras
Chapter 14
"Theatricality, Performativity, and the Fete revolutionnaire: The Paradoxes of French Revolutionary Festivals as Performed Assembly"
Alexis Stanley
Chapter 15
"R for Rehearsal, R for Revolution: Stories from and About Tahrir Square"
Dalia Basiouny
Index
Acknowledgements
"Introduction: Archives, Temporalities, and Spaces of Revolution"
Logan J. Connors, Lillian Manzor, Emily Sahakian
I. Performance Archives, Repertoires, and Memories of Revolution
Chapter 1
"Of Riots and Representations: The Case of Auguste Macouba's Play Eia! Man-maille la!"
Andy Stafford
Chapter 2
"Rocking the Canboulay: Trinidad's Jamette Carnival Outside the Shadow of Revolt"
Stephen Cedars
Chapter 3
"The National Discourse of a Revolution: Theatrical Censorship and Chavismo Performativity"
Neta Kanny
Chapter 4
"Performing Tropicana: Cuban-American Theater Between Memory and Revolution"
Lilianne Lugo Herrera
Chapter 5
"Theater Adaptation as a Critical Reservoir of the Mexican Revolution's Memories in Mendoza by Los Colochos Teatro"
Maritza Beatriz Garcia Rodriguez
II. Ruptures and Repetitions of Revolutionary Time
Chapter 6
"Repeat Performances: Rehearsing the French Revolution in Late Qing Chinese Theater"
Cecilia Feilla
Chapter 7
"Revolutionary Avant-Garde Puppetry from Germany, through Japan, to China"
Siyuan Liu
Chapter 8
"Heiner Mueller, The Mission, and Revolutionary Time"
Liam Johnston-McCondach
Chapter 9
"Performing Revolution in the Age of Revolutions: Guillaume Tell across the Revolutionary Chasm"
Marc H. Lerner
Chapter 10
"Revolutionary Time in Edouard Glissant's Monsieur Toussaint and Maryse Conde's An tan revolisyon"
Soraya Limare
III. Places and Spaces of Revolutionary Performance
Chapter 11
"Three Stages of Iranian Theater in Revolution"
Yassaman Khajehi
Chapter 12
"Spatial Interventions and Material Re-appropriations: Resisting the Aestheticization of Reality in the New York Young Lords' Garbage Offensive(s)"
Briana Beeman
Chapter 13
"Retaking Chile: Theater and Space in Authoritarian Times"
Melissa Gonzalez-Contreras
Chapter 14
"Theatricality, Performativity, and the Fete revolutionnaire: The Paradoxes of French Revolutionary Festivals as Performed Assembly"
Alexis Stanley
Chapter 15
"R for Rehearsal, R for Revolution: Stories from and About Tahrir Square"
Dalia Basiouny
Index
