Performance, Politics and Activism

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Performance and Language Diversity in a Globalizing World....Pages 17-31
Zooming In and Out: Tactical Media Performance in Transnational Contexts....Pages 32-55
The Role of Theatre in the Breaking and Making of Two African Nations: Ethiopia and Eritrea, 1916–2011....Pages 56-70
For the Eyes of the Dear Father: Staging National Unity in the North Korean Arirang Festival....Pages 71-86
The Emaciated Spectator and the Witness of the Powerless....Pages 87-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
‘Asking, We Walk’....Pages 107-120
Colour Blind: Seeing Difference, Performing Sightlessness....Pages 121-131
Constellation: Engaging with Radical Devised Dance Theatre: Keith Hennessy’s Sol Niger....Pages 132-153
Glocalqueer Pink Activism....Pages 154-166
The Palestinian State of Emergency and the Art Practice of Emily Jacir....Pages 167-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
‘Raw Life’ and the Ruse of Empathy....Pages 181-206
Siting Geography: Octavio Solis and the Circulation of Performance....Pages 207-219
Peter Sellars’s Changing Conceptions of the Audience in Productions of Three Greek Plays....Pages 220-236
Kleenex Citizens and the Performance of Undisposability....Pages 237-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-274