Jean Genet: Performance and Politics

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Jean Genet in His ‘Humour’....Pages 23-33
The Theatre of Genet in Sociological Perspective....Pages 34-43
Front Matter....Pages 44-53
Genet’s The Screens as Media Allegory....Pages 55-55
Reading The Blacks through the 1956 Preface: Politics and Betrayal....Pages 57-67
‘Micro-treatise on a Mini-politics’: Genet, Individualism and Collectivity....Pages 68-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-91
Theatre in a Graveyard: Site-based Performance and the Revolution of Everyday Life....Pages 93-93
Jean, Ron, Franko and Me: Genet, Body Art and Abjection....Pages 95-105
Front Matter....Pages 106-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-127
Genet and Cinema: Adaptations and Influence....Pages 157-157
Front Matter....Pages 131-142
An Interview with Joseph Strick....Pages 143-155
An Interview with Bill Rauch and Lynn Jeffries of Cornerstone Theater Company....Pages 157-157
An Interview with Jean-Baptiste Sastre....Pages 159-168
An Interview with Terry Hands....Pages 169-178
An Interview with Colin Chambers....Pages 179-179
An Interview with Richard Schechner....Pages 181-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-192
More Holes Than Blanket: Rehearsal Process as Political Process in Genet’s Theatre....Pages 193-198
Back Matter....Pages 199-207
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