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Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis is an international collection of essays by leading academics, artists, writers, and curators examining ways in which the global tragedies of our century are being negotiated in current theatre practice. In exploring the tragic in the fields of history and theory of theatre, the book approaches crisis through an understanding of the existential and political aspect of the tragic condition. Using an interdisciplinary perspective, it showcases theatre texts and productions that enter the public sphere, manifesting notably participatory, immersive, and documentary modes of expression to form a theatre of modern tragedy. The coexistence of scholarly essays with manifesto-like provocations, interviews, original plays, and diaries by theatre artists provides a rich and multifocal lens that allows readers to approach twenty-first-century theatre through historical and critical study, text and performance analysis, and creative processes. Of special value is the global scope of the collection, embracing forms of crisis theatre in many geographically diverse regions of both the East and the West. Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis will be of use and interest to academics and students of political theatre, applied theatre, theatre history, and theatre theory.

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Author:   Avra Sidiropoulou
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9780367495299

ISBN 10:   0367495295
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   17 June 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Part 1: Crisis as Tragedy and Judgment 1. Tragedy and Crisis: Staging Forced Displacement and Its Reluctant Hero Yana Meerzon 2. Beyond Suffering or Resolution: Tragedy and the Twenty-First Century Collective Experience Avra Sidiropoulou 3. Prophets Needed: Five Easy Pieces and La Reprise: Histoire(s) du théâtre (I) by Milo Rau Carol Martin Τestimony 1.1. Avra Sidiropoulou in Conversation with Daniel Wetzel of Rimini Protokoll Τestimony 1.2. Cards of Identities (Poetic luxury) Hanane Hajj Ali Τestimony 1.3. Chorus and Crisis in the Contemporary United States Peter Campbell Part 2: Texts and Contexts of Crisis: Power/lessness, Precarity and Identity Politics 4. Caesar Must (Not) Die. Italian Political ‘Caesars’ in the New Millennium Silvia Bigliazzi 5. Leaving the world good or leaving a better world? Theatre and crisis through the lenses of Bertolt Brecht Aldo Milohnic 6. Tragic and Post-tragic Representations of Precarity in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Drama: Fractured Togetherness in Lynn Nottage’s Sweat and Annie Baker’s The Flick Ana Fernandez Caparrós 7. Modern African Drama in Crisis? Two African Authors in Search of Identity Taiwo Afolabi, Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah and Ogah Mark Onwe Part 3: Stage Narratives of Failure or Visions of a Better World? Bankrupt States, Violent Cities, Global Resistance Civic Consciousness and the Poetics of Participation 8. ""Theatre remains traditionalist and Eurocentric."" About Milo Rau’s ""theatre of crisis"" Freddy Decreus 9. ""How Many More Thousands of Years?"": Dystopia, Otherness, and the Greek Crisis in the Work of Three Contemporary Greek Dramatists Constantina Ziropoulou 10. Theatre as Assembly: ‘Theatre Commons’ Radical Dramaturgy Tadashi Uchino 11. Marca España. Making Theatre from Precarity, State Violence and Fiesta Ana Contreras Elvira Τestimony 3.1. Aoidoi of a Country’s Living History Lupe Gehrenbech Part 4: Reflections on the Covid 19 Pandemic and the Crisis of the Anthropocene 12. For the theatre of the Anthropocene Frank Raddatz Testimony 4.1. Theatre in Covid Τimes: A Report from Greece Anestis Azas Testimony 4.2. All is related to Me Su Xiaogang Testimony 4.3. Plays (we never staged) to survive Miguel Rojo and Javier Hernando (Los Barbaros) Testimony 4.4. Troy Too [Original playscript] Karen Malpede (Theatre Three Collaborative)"

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Avra Sidiropoulou is Associate Professor at the M.A. in Theatre Studies Programme at the Open University of Cyprus and Artistic Director of Athens-based Persona Theatre Company. She is the author of Directions for Directing. Theatre and Method (Routledge 2018) and Authoring Performance: The Director in Contemporary Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan 2011). She was Visiting Researcher at MIT and the Graduate Centre at CUNY, the Freie University, the Universities of Surrey, Leeds, and Tokyo (Japan Foundation Fellow). Avra has lectured, directed, and conducted theatre workshops in many parts of the globe. Recent directing works include Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal (Cyprus Theatre Organization 2022), Bryony Lavery’s Frozen (Skala Theatre 2020), Phaedra I— (text: Sidiropoulou—Tristan Bates Theatre, London 2019), and A Doll’s House (Technochoros Ethal 2019). She was nominated for the League of Professional Theatre Women Gilder/Goigney International Award 2020. https://persona.gr/en/people/avra-sidiropoulou/.

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