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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Political theatre"”.
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Workers' playtime: an enquiry into the relationship between Paris May '68 and the development of British political theatre 1968-1978
… thesis examines how and why the revolutionary political and aesthetic theories articulated throughout Paris May’68, influenced the formal development and political struggles of British Political Theatre between 1968-1978. In particular, the thesis traces how the radical philosophy of the …
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Theatre on Trial: Staging Postwar Justice in the United States and Germany
This dissertation studies the interchange between political theatre and postwar political trials. I argue that to an extraordinary extent, theatre history in this period is inextricable from trial history. Through close archival study of mid-century theatre productions including Bertolt Brecht's …
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Interface : a new political landscape at the union buildings
A Political Theatre, Think Tank and School of Representation at the Union Buildings are created in response to questions regarding identity, authenticity and authority within post-1994 South African Architecture. The design is investigated by means of a journey through power, the urban and the …
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After the Postdramatic? Elfriede Jelinek, Kathrin Röggla and the Possibility of Political Subjects
… Jelinek, Kathrin Röggla, and the Possibility of Political Subjects My dissertation is concerned with the aesthetics of political theatre in post Millennium theatre texts by the Austrian authors Kathrin Röggla and Elfriede Jelinek. Both authors conceive theatre as political medium („politisches …
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What does the Applied Theatre Director do? Directorial intervention in theatre-making for social change
… practice of artistic directors within applied theatre companies in the United Kingdom. ‘Applied theatre’ describes the process of theatre-making in which commitment to ethical, pedagogical, philosophical and social priorities are integral dimensions of theatre-making designed for specified …
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Ideas, forms and development in the British workers' theatre, 1925-1935
… traces the development of British workers' theatre in the period 1925 - 1935, focussing on the institution which eventually constituted itself as the Workers' Theatre Movement, and relating the particular character of this organisation to the nature of British theatre as a whole. Whereas …
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Expanding Theatre: Directing Approaches from Contemporary Chilean Women Directors
… Penélope ya no espera (2014). Her beliefs about political theatre are illuminated through a directing case study of her 2019 production of El Círculo. Chapter two delves into the directing career of Alexandra von Hummel, with highlights including her co-direction of La tercera obra (2005), her …
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Materialist-feminist criticism and selected plays of Sarah Daniels, Liz Lochhead and Claire Dowie.
… plays written by women constitute an ideological theatre. It is based upon the premise that there is a relationship of feminist theatre practice to feminist theory, where theory is seen to have informed practice and practice has informed the theory. I argue that an ideological theatre can be …
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Policy Referendums in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia: Constitutional Functions and Effects
… such policy referendums are little more than political theatre or a mass opinion poll, and have little bearing on the normative architecture of the constitution. It is *that* assumption which is tested in this thesis, through undertaking a series of country-based case studies. The conclusion …
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The British theatre economics and management in the 1990s as an effect of Thatcherite capitalism
… in the dominance of capitalist values in theatre, under which theatre companies inevitably compete with each other, and are, thereby, increasingly inclined towards safe, popular, commercial products. By contrast, alternative oppositional activities that can play a role in checking and …
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Iconoclasm in modern British drama
… drama, where in a short period of time, the theatre has witnessed a host of iconoclastic dramatists, where demythologization has been widespread and fierce and where the icons of the present and the past have been subjected to a wholesale desecration in large numbers at the hands of the …
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El encuentro entre el teatro militante y la política de izquierda en Colombia durante el Siglo XX
La investigación relaciona el teatro moderno colombiano con la militancia política de izquierda mostrando como el posicionamiento político condicionó la actividad artística. Un proceso que se inserta en el marco de la historia de Colombia.