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Staging Postcommunism
Alternative Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe after 1989
by Vessela S. Warner; Diana Manole
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Pub Date
Jan 01 2020
| Archive Date
Feb 01 2020
Description
Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe was never the same after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In the transition to a postcommunist world, “alternative theatre” found ways to grapple with political chaos, corruption, and aggressive implementation of a market economy. Three decades later, this volume is the first comprehensive examination of alternative theatre in ten former communist countries. The essays focus on companies and artists that radically changed the language and organization of theatre in the countries formerly known as the Eastern European bloc. This collection investigates the ways in which postcommunist alternative theatre negotiated and embodied change not only locally but globally as well.
Contributors: Dennis Barnett, Dennis C. Beck, Violeta Decheva, Luule Epner, John Freedman, Barry Freeman, Margarita Kompelmakher, Jaak Rahesoo, Angelina Ros¸ca, Ban¸uta Rubess, Christopher Silsby, Andrea Tompa, S. E. Wilmer
Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe was never the same after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In the transition to a postcommunist world, “alternative theatre” found ways to grapple with...
Description
Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe was never the same after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In the transition to a postcommunist world, “alternative theatre” found ways to grapple with political chaos, corruption, and aggressive implementation of a market economy. Three decades later, this volume is the first comprehensive examination of alternative theatre in ten former communist countries. The essays focus on companies and artists that radically changed the language and organization of theatre in the countries formerly known as the Eastern European bloc. This collection investigates the ways in which postcommunist alternative theatre negotiated and embodied change not only locally but globally as well.
Contributors: Dennis Barnett, Dennis C. Beck, Violeta Decheva, Luule Epner, John Freedman, Barry Freeman, Margarita Kompelmakher, Jaak Rahesoo, Angelina Ros¸ca, Ban¸uta Rubess, Christopher Silsby, Andrea Tompa, S. E. Wilmer
Advance Praise
“Staging Postcommunism opens the door on an area of the world where theatre vibrantly looks to answer the sociological, political, and personal issues of identity that emerged following the breakup of the Soviet Union.”—Marc Robinson, St. Olaf College
“Staging Postcommunism makes an important contribution to the field in a number of dynamic modes. This fills a significant gap in the scholarship, addressing a wide range of nations and cultures in Eastern and Central Europe, whose extensive and influential theatre histories of the twentieth century to the present day are still woefully underrepresented in English-language scholarship. I read the book with great enthusiasm.”—Bryce Lease, author, After ’89: Polish Theatre and the Political
“Staging Postcommunism opens the door on an area of the world where theatre vibrantly looks to answer the sociological, political, and personal issues of identity that emerged following the breakup...
Advance Praise
“Staging Postcommunism opens the door on an area of the world where theatre vibrantly looks to answer the sociological, political, and personal issues of identity that emerged following the breakup of the Soviet Union.”—Marc Robinson, St. Olaf College
“Staging Postcommunism makes an important contribution to the field in a number of dynamic modes. This fills a significant gap in the scholarship, addressing a wide range of nations and cultures in Eastern and Central Europe, whose extensive and influential theatre histories of the twentieth century to the present day are still woefully underrepresented in English-language scholarship. I read the book with great enthusiasm.”—Bryce Lease, author, After ’89: Polish Theatre and the Political
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9781609386771 |
| PRICE |
$90.00 (USD)
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| PAGES |
298
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Additional Information
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9781609386771 |
| PRICE |
$90.00 (USD)
|
| PAGES |
298
|
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