Book 2009

Performance Affects

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English
Published: 2009

Theater and society
War and theater
Politics and war
PERFORMING ARTS
Theater
History & Criticism

'Performance Affects' explores performance projects in disaster & war zones to argue that joy, beauty & celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based performance practice, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from effects towards an affective role, connected to sensations of pleasure.