Performance Affects explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or participatory performance practice, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from effects towards an affective role, connected to sensations of pleasure.
| ISBN: | 9780230221604 |
| Publication date: | 28th April 2009 |
| Author: | James Thompson |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 205 pages |
| Genres: |
Performing arts Theatre studies History of Performing Arts Social groups and identities International relations |