Theatrical Unrest
Subtitle: Nine Riots in the History of the Stage, 1601-2004
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781138914308
Subjects: Theater
Description: Theatrical Unrest tells the compelling tales of ten riots whose cause lay on the stage. It looks at the intensity and evanescence of the live event and asks whether theatre shares its unrepeatable quality with history. Tracing episodes of unrest in theatrical history from an Elizabethan uprising over Shakespeare s Richard II to Sikhs in revolt at Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti s Behzti, Sean McEvoy chronicles a selection of extreme public responses to this inflammatory art form.