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From Drama to Theatre to Performance Studies
2018This chapter deals with the institutional and discursive relationships between postdramatic theatre and performance studies by drawing on the work of scholars such as Richard Schechner, Shannon Jackson and Jon McKenzie. It contends that performance studies not only establishes a condition of possibility for Lehmann’s work in the academy but also ...
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Theatre Survey, 2018
Abstract: On 30 March 2018, protesters in the Gaza Strip engaged in a peaceful demonstration for “Land Day,” a Palestinian commemoration of the expropriation of lands for Israeli settlements in 1976. During the march, Palestinians approached the border with Israel where the Israeli army opened fire with live ammunition and tank shells, killing at least
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Abstract: On 30 March 2018, protesters in the Gaza Strip engaged in a peaceful demonstration for “Land Day,” a Palestinian commemoration of the expropriation of lands for Israeli settlements in 1976. During the march, Palestinians approached the border with Israel where the Israeli army opened fire with live ammunition and tank shells, killing at least
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The Efficacy/Effeminacy Braid: Unpacking the Performance Studies/Theatre Studies Dichotomy
Theatre Topics, 2003This article explores the origins of the disciplinary separation between Performance Studies and Theatre Studies, with particular attention to the polemical stance of The Drama Review during the 1960s. It argues that the moves at this time toward studying cultural performance, as distinct from theatre, were motivated in part by a homophobically ...
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Cultural Evolution and Performance Genres: Memetics in Theatre History and Performance Studies
Theatre Journal, 2007The academic disciplines of theatre history and performance studies have yet to confront or make use of the growing trend toward Darwinian thinking in the social sciences, particularly psychology and anthropology. This essay focuses on exploring the application of memetics—a branch of cultural evolution theory—to theatre and performance history by ...
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2021
Theatre and performance scholarship has exhaustively theorised the nature of the political dimensions of drama: its strategies, capacities and materiality, with its inherent potential as a site of collision with existing assumptions and values repeatedly emphasised.
Pedro de Senna, James Hudson
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Theatre and performance scholarship has exhaustively theorised the nature of the political dimensions of drama: its strategies, capacities and materiality, with its inherent potential as a site of collision with existing assumptions and values repeatedly emphasised.
Pedro de Senna, James Hudson
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2011
In this brief chapter, I discuss six formative contexts within which I have met, known, and interacted with Richard Schechner personally and/or his writing. It is a journey from a time before performance studies to the present moment in which performance studies as a field takes quite different shape in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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In this brief chapter, I discuss six formative contexts within which I have met, known, and interacted with Richard Schechner personally and/or his writing. It is a journey from a time before performance studies to the present moment in which performance studies as a field takes quite different shape in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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McCoy's guide to theatre and performance studies
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The Routledge Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies
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