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Author:   Patrick Duggan ,  Lisa Peschel
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.336kg
ISBN:  

9781137454263

ISBN 10:   1137454261
Pages:   251
Publication Date:   06 January 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Performing (for) Survival: Frameworks and Mapping; Patrick Duggan and Lisa Peschel PART I: SURVIVING WAR AND EXILE: NATIONAL AND ETHIC IDENTITY IN PERFORMANCE 1. Surviving (with) Theatre: A History of the ELF and EPLF Cultural Troupes in the Eritrean War of Independence; Christine Matzke 2. Theatre for Survival: Art of Creation and Protection (Kubunda); Ananda Breed and Alice Mukaka PART II: A SPACE WHERE SOMETHING MIGHT SURVIVE: THEATRE IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS 3. The Cultural Life of the Terezín Ghetto in 1960s Survivor Testimony: Theatre, Trauma and Resilience; Lisa Peschel 4. Imagining Theatre in Auschwitz: Performance, Solidarity and Survival in the Works of Charlotte Delbo; Amanda Stuart Fisher PART III: TACTICS AND STRATEGIES: DISSENT UNDER OPPRESSIVE REGIMES 5. Swazzles of Subversion: Puppets Under Dictatorship; Cariad Astles 6. Against Order[s]: Dictatorship, Absurdism, and the Plays of Sony Labou Tansi; Macelle Mahala 7. Surviving Censorship: El-Hakawati's Mahjoob Mahjoob and the Struggle for the Permission To Perform; Samer Al-Saber PART IV: COMING IN FROM THE OUTSIDE: THEATRE, COMMUNITY, CRISIS 8. The Council Estate as Hood: SPID Theatre Company and grass-roots arts practice as cultural politics; Katie Beswick 9. The Art of Survival: Social Circus, Youth Regeneration and Projected Community in the North East of Scotland; Graham Jeffery, Neill Patton, Kerrie Schaefer and Tom Wakeford PART FIVE: CRISIS AND EXTREMITY AS PERFORMANCE 10. The Paradox of Dis/appearance: Hunger Strike in Athens as a Performance of Survival; Aylwyn Walsh 11. 'Dis-ease' and the Performance of Radical Resistance in the Maze Prison; Patrick Duggan Coda 'Je suis Charlie': The Afterlife of Inspiration; Sophie Nield

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Patrick Duggan and Lisa Peschel's Performing (for) Survival is an important contribution to the study of performance as a mechanism for survival. Its uniqueness lies in its choice to expose the internal workings of communities and politically-organised resistance movements in times of extreme crisis. (Effie Samara, The Kelvingrove Review, Issue 16, June, 2017)

“Patrick Duggan and Lisa Peschel’s Performing (for) Survival is an important contribution to the study of performance as a mechanism for survival. Its uniqueness lies in its choice to expose the internal workings of communities and politically-organised resistance movements in times of extreme crisis.” (Effie Samara, The Kelvingrove Review, Issue 16, June, 2017) 

Author Information

Patrick Duggan is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Surrey, UK. His publications include: Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance (2012); On Trauma, a special issue of the international journal Performance Research (2011); and Reverberations Across Small-Scale British Theatre: Politics, Aesthetics and Forms (2013). Lisa Peschel is Lecturer in Theatre at the University of York, UK. Her publications include Performing Captivity, Performing Escape: Cabarets and Plays from the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto (2014). She is a co-investigator on the £1.8 million AHRC-funded project Performing the Jewish Archive.

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