Anti-War Theatre After Brecht: Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century
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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Anti-War Theatre After Brecht: Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century
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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Anti-War Theatre After Brecht: Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century

Anti-War Theatre After Brecht: Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century

by Lara Stevens
Anti-War Theatre After Brecht: Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century
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Anti-War Theatre After Brecht: Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century

Anti-War Theatre After Brecht: Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century

by Lara Stevens

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137538871
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 06/18/2016
Edition description: 1st ed. 2016
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr Lara Stevens was the 2014 Hugh Williamson Postdoctoral Fellow in the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the editor and translator of a collection of essays on performance by feminist philosopher and playwright Hélène Cixous, Politics, Ethics and Performance: Hélène Cixous and the Théâtre du Soleil.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Chapter 1. Performing the ‘War on Terror’.- Chapter 2. From Epic to Dialectical Theatre.- Chapter 3. Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul and Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall be Unhappy.- Chapter 4. The Théâtre du Soleil’s Le Dernier Caravansérail.- Chapter 5. Caryl Churchill’s Iraq.doc and Seven Jewish Children: A Play For Gaza.- Chapter 6. Elfriede Jelinek’s Bambiland.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.

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“Anti-War Theatre After Brecht provides a lucid, highly persuasive argument for the relevance of Brecht’s dialectical thinking about theatre to our post-9/11 moment. Placing Brecht’s theories in dialogue with an illuminating international constellation of anti-war plays, Stevens brings Brecht into the twenty-first century, with dazzling results. I look forward to sharing this book with my students.” (Sean Carney, Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre, McGill University, Canada

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