Performance and Participation

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This edited collection gathers together leading voices in theatre and performance studies to debate the politics of participation and find points of connection across a range of performative forms – including community theatre, live art, applied theatre, one-to-one performance and marathon running. Arranged in three sections, 'Recognising Participation', 'Labours of Participation', and 'Authoring Participation', the book raises productive questions about how and why audiences are encouraged to participate in creating the artistic work. This intersection, the authors suggest, blurs the boundaries between producer and consumer, promising modes of engagement that are at once political, social and aesthetic. Applying theoretical ideas to concrete discussions of practice, this is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of applied theatre, political and socially-engaged theatre, participatory theatre making and performance studies.
Features contributions from renowned scholars across the worldProvides clear opportunities for students to make connections between creative and critical practices in socially engaged and participatory theatreOpens conceptual questions for practitionersConsiders how the cultural and political vocabularies at stake in the term 'participation' are entangledContests the binary between participation and non-participation in order to expand the horizons of perception and thought about the business of cultural 'doing'Interrogates the political relationship between performance and participation within the twenty-first century's changing theatrical landscapeDraws upon recent theory from a variety of disciplinesEach chapter interweaves theory with the examination of one or more participatory performances, allowing the reader to gain deeper insights into both

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