Anti-War Theatre After Brecht

Anti-War Theatre After Brecht
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9781137538888
ISBN-13 : 1137538880
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Book Synopsis Anti-War Theatre After Brecht by : Lara Stevens

Download or read book Anti-War Theatre After Brecht written by Lara Stevens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the ways in which contemporary Western theatre protests against the ‘War on Terror’, this book analyses six twenty-first century plays that respond to the post-9/11 military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. The plays are written by some of the most significant writers of this century and the last including Elfriede Jelinek, Caryl Churchill, Hélène Cixous and Tony Kushner. Anti-war Theatre After Brecht grapples with the problem of how to make theatre that protests the policies of democratically elected Western governments in a post-Marxist era. It shows how the Internet has become a key tool for disseminating anti-war play texts and how online social media forums are changing traditional dramatic aesthetics and broadening opportunities for spectator access, engagement and interaction with a work and the political alternatives it puts forward.


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