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Political and protest theatre after 9/11 : patriotic dissent / edited by Jenny Spencer.
Van Pelt Library PN2266.5 .P75 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 21.
- Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 21
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Political aspects--United States--History--21st century.
- Theater.
- Theater--Political aspects--England--History--21st century.
- Political plays, American--History and criticism.
- Political plays, American.
- Political plays, English--History and criticism.
- Political plays, English.
- American drama--21st century--History and criticism.
- American drama.
- English drama--21st century--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in literature.
- War on Terrorism (2001-2009) in literature.
- War in literature.
- Patriotism in literature.
- Dissenters in literature.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
- Theater--Political aspects.
- History.
- England.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Political and protest theater after 9/11
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Mainstages. The 2003-2004 season and Broadway musical theatre as a political conversant / Stacy Wolf
- The ubiquitous orange jumpsuit: staging iconic images and the production of the Commons / Josh Abrams
- America as rogue state: Caryl Churchill's Drunk enough to say I love you? / Amelia Howe Kritzer
- Terrorized by the War on Terror: Mark Ravenhill's Shoot/ Get Treasure/ Repeat / Jenny Spencer
- Unraveling the golden thread: performing the politics of Black Watch / Marcia Blumberg
- Voices and/of the other: documentary and oral history performance in post-9/11 British theatre / Ryan Claycomb
- Antiwar activism and the structures of trauma in the plays of Eve Ensler and Kathryn Blume / Emily Klein
- Alternative spaces. Why we have failed: Culture Project's Iraq War plays / Jeanne Colleran
- Descent as dissent: Arab American theatrical responses to 9/11 / Dalia Basiouny
- A view of The brig: from the cage to the street / Katy Ryan
- Camping on the streets, squares, and wastelands of power: theatrical protest and the "War On Terror" in the U.K. / Jenny Hughes
- Patriot acts: all-American tactical performance in the Age of Permawar / L.M. Bogad
- Performing citizenship: The Concert for New York City and the construction of post-9/11 America / Jennifer Chan
- The maladapted hothead paisan: a lesbian comedy of terrors / Sara Warner.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415895514
- 0415895510
- OCLC:
- 698324490
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