Committing Theatre
Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada
Published on 26. September 2011
376 pages
978-1-926662-80-0 (ISBN)
Description
Committing Theatre offers the first full-length historical study of political intervention theatre and theatrical spectatorship in English Canada. Building on twenty years of research and engagement in the field, this book's historical narrative frames close-up examples of how theatre artists have intervened in and engaged with political struggle from the mid-19th century to the present. Lumber-camp mock trials, Mayday parades and street protests, the Workers Theatre Movement, agitprop theatre, the counter-culture theatre of the 1960s and 1970s, and more recent anarchist theatre collectives all played a role in a vibrant and unique radical theatre culture that went largely unnoticed, unrecorded, and undocumented by the professional theatre establishment.
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Alan Filewod is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph and a recognized authority on Canada's theatre history. He has been involved in political theatre for over thirty years.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1 Purposeful Performance and Theatrical Refusals
- 2 Class, Spectatorship, and the Unruly: The Nineteenth Century
- 3 Mobilized Theatre and the Invention of Agitprop
- 4 Six Comrades and a Suitcase: From Agitprop to "Eight Men Speak"
- 5 Crafting Theatre Work: Mid-Century Radicalism
- 6 Generation Agitprop, with Puppets
- 7 A Case of Cultural Sabotage: The Mummers Troupe
- 8 Powering Structures and Popular Theatre
- 9 Out There: Digital Streets, Chaos Aesthetics, Heritage Guerrillas
- Coda: Out There, In Here
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
