Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspapers traces a history of the living newspaper as a theatre of crisis from Soviet Russia (1910s), through the Federal Theatre Project of the Great Depression in America (1930s), to Augusto Boal's teatro jornal in Brazil (1970s), and its resonance with documentary forms deployed in the final years of apartheid in South Africa (1990s), up until the present day in the UK (2020s). Across this Element, the author is interested in what a transnational and transhistorical examination of the living newspaper through the lens of crisis reveals about the ways in which theatre can intervene in our collective social, economic and political life. By holding these diverse examples together, the author asserts the Living Newspaper as a form of Crisis Theatre.
ISBN: | 9781009525817 |
Publication date: | 11th April 2024 |
Author: | Sarah Jane Mullan, Sarah Bartley |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 76 pages |
Series: | Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political |
Genres: |
Theatre studies Media studies: journalism Human coronaviruses Health, illness and addiction: social aspects History of Performing Arts |