Political and protest theatre after 9/11
Subtitle: patriotic dissent
By: Jenny Spencer, editor
Series: Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies -- 21
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780415895514
Subjects: Patriotism in literature; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Theater; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in literature; English drama; War in literature; History and criticism; Influence; American drama; American Political plays; English Political plays; Dissenters in literature; History
Other titles: Political and protest theater after 9/11
Description: This collection documents and examines political and protest theatre produced between the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and Obama's election in 2008 by British and American artists responding to their own governments' actions and policies during this time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Mainstages. The 2003-2004 season and Broadway musical theatre as a political conversant / Stacy Wolf; title: The ubiquitous orange jumpsuit: staging iconic images and the production of the Commons / Josh Abrams; title: America as rogue state: Caryl Churchill's Drunk enough to say I love you? / Amelia Howe Kritzer; title: Terrorized by the War on Terror: Mark Ravenhill's Shoot/ Get Treasure/ Repeat / Jenny Spencer; title: Unraveling the golden thread: performing the politics of Black Watch / Marcia Blumberg; title: Voices and/of the other: documentary and oral history performance in post-9/11 British theatre / Ryan Claycomb; title: Antiwar activism and the structures of trauma in the plays of Eve Ensler and Kathryn Blume / Emily Klein; title: Alternative spaces. Why we have failed: Culture Project's Iraq War plays / Jeanne Colleran; title: Descent as dissent: Arab American theatrical responses to 9/11 / Dalia Basiouny; title: A view of The brig: from the cage to the street / Katy Ryan; title: Camping on the streets, squares, and wastelands of power: theatrical protest and the "War On Terror" in the U.K. / Jenny Hughes; title: Patriot acts: all-American tactical performance in the Age of Permawar / L.M. Bogad; title: Performing citizenship: The Concert for New York City and the construction of post-9/11 America / Jennifer Chan; title: The maladapted hothead paisan: a lesbian comedy of terrors / Sara Warner.