Performing truth : works of radical memory for times of social amnesia / L.M. Bogad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bogad, L. M., author.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bogad, L. M--Political and social views.

Bogad, L. M.

Theater--Political aspects.

Theater.

Performance art--Political aspects.

Performance art.

Political and social views.

Physical Description:

xx, 270 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge 2022.

Summary:

"Performing Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre makers who are wrestling with how to present historical, political or socioeconomic information in an engaging, entertaining and galvanising way. How to make data compelling and documents mobilizing? How to keep an audience interested in what might be dry, dire or depressing? How to surprise an audience and keep them alert? Collecting together the performance texts of international performance artist and activist L.M. Bogad, this book accompanies each script with essays that further explore that work's performance strategies. It also equips readers with specific resources and pedagogical tools to help those wishing to stage these pieces or create their own work to engage with similar topics. Bogad also provides 'takeaways' for each piece, illustrating the challenges of its particular subject matter and how to overcome those challenges with innovations unique to performance art. This is a key guidebook for artists and theatremakers facing the challenges of engaging with information in an era of fake news, propaganda bots, and the polarization of ideological spheres, as well as students and teachers taking on that challenge in theatre studies, performance studies and performing arts classrooms"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. COINTELSHOW: A Patriot Act

2. Economusic: Keeping Score

3. Possible Pasts/Forgotten Futures: A role-playing performance/game (Santiago 9/11/1973)

Intermission: A Word From Our Sponsors

4. The Revolt of the Footnotes

5. A Fair Fight

6. GGPS: The Guillermo Gomez-Peha Global Positioning System

7. The Authoritarian Body: Performing Politicians

8. Glamorgeddon: Limonauts Gamble for Oakland-land[™]

9. A collection of street theatre scripts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Container of: Bogad, L. M. Works. Selections

Other Format:

Online version: Bogad, L.M. Performing truth

ISBN:

9780367490331

0367490331

9780367490355

0367490358

OCLC:

1251737360