Committing Theatre
Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada
Nonfiction, Entertainment, Performing Arts, Theatre, History & Criticism, History, Canada
| Author: | Alan Filewod | ISBN: | 9781926662800 |
| Publisher: | Between the Lines | Publication: | September 26, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Between the Lines | Language: | English |
| Author: | Alan Filewod |
| ISBN: | 9781926662800 |
| Publisher: | Between the Lines |
| Publication: | September 26, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Between the Lines |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
