Committing theatre, theatre radicalism and political intervention in Canada, Alan Filewod
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Committing theatre, theatre radicalism and political intervention in Canada, Alan Filewod
Language
eng
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Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Committing theatre
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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Alan Filewod
Sub title
theatre radicalism and political intervention in Canada
Summary
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 1960's and 1970's, 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
Target audience
adult
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- Theater + Political aspects -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
- Actors and actresses + Political activity -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
- Theater + Political aspects -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
- Electronic books
- Actors and actresses + Political activity -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
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- Theater + Political aspects -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
- Actors and actresses + Political activity -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
- Theater + Political aspects -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
- Electronic books
- Actors and actresses + Political activity -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
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