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This monograph studies the development of Venezuelan theater in the 70s, characterized by psychological, physical as well as verbal violence and cruelty. Throughout the decade, violence pervaded not only drama, but every sphere of social, political and cultural life in Venezuela. While these dramaturgies of violence disrupted the aesthetic field in many ways, they also interpreted the development of Venezuelan society.

Theater and society.

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Stage women, 1900–50 explores the many ways in which women conceptualised, constructed and participated in networks of professional practice in the theatre and performance industries between 1900 and 1950. A timely volume full of original research, the book explores women’s complex negotiations of their agency over both their labour and public representation, and their use of personal and professional networks to sustain their careers. Including a series of case studies that explore a range of well-known and lesser-known women working in theatre, film and popular performance of the period. The volume is divided into two connected parts. ‘Female theatre workers in the social and theatrical realm’ looks at the relationship between women’s work – on- and offstage – and autobiography, activism, technique, touring, education and the law. Part II, ‘Women and popular performance’, focuses on the careers of individual artists, once household names, including Lily Brayton, Ellen Terry, radio star Mabel Constanduros, and Oscar-winning film star Margaret Rutherford. Overall, the book provides new and vibrant cultural histories of women’s work in the theatre and performance industries of the period.

Women in the theater --- Theater and society --- Theater --- History --- women --- theatre --- professionalisation --- professional networks --- theatre historiography

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Les théâtres communautaires réunissent les habitants d'un quartier ou d’un village. Ces troupes de voisins créent collectivement des pièces qui interrogent l’histoire et l’identité de leur territoire, de leur pays. Elles expérimentent de nouveaux rapports sociaux et modes d’organisation et encouragent la participation à l’échelle locale. S’appuyant sur une solide expérience de terrain, Lucie Elgoyhen retrace le développement et l’action des théâtres communautaires en Argentine depuis la naissance du mouvement en 1983. Témoins des bouleversements qui ont ébranlé le pays, de la dictature militaire à la crise de 2001, ces théâtres de proximité ont contribué à la réorganisation de l’identité sociale des classes moyennes et au renouvellement de leur action collective. Étude pionnière en France, Le Théâtre communautaire argentin livre une analyse passionnante et documentée sur le sujet et donne un éclairage instructif sur la culture communautaire. Préface de Sébastien Velut, géographe, directeur délégué aux relations internationales de l'université Sorbonne-Paris-Cité et professeur à l'IHEAL.

Community theater --- Theater and society --- Actors --- Society and theater --- Theater --- Community plays, etc. --- Little theater movement --- Social status --- Social aspects --- spectacle --- théâtre --- Argentine

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The avant-garde posits the possibility of total rupture with the past. This book pulls back on this futuristic impulse by showing how theater became a key site for artists on the edge of capitalism to reconfigure the role of the aesthetic between 1917 and 1934. The book argues that this "unfinished art"-because of its weakness as a representative institution in Mexico and Brazil, where the bourgeois stage had not yet coalesced-was at the forefront of struggles to redefine the relationship between art and social change. Drawing on archival research, Townsend reveals the importance of avant-garde projects that belie the rhetoric of rupture and immediacy: ethnographic operas, populist puppet plays, children's radio programs, a philosophical drama about the birth of a new race, and an antifascist spectacle written for a theater shut down by the police. The book argues that avant-garde art is tied to the experience of dependency, delay, and the uneven development of capitalism.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Theater and society --- Experimental theater --- Alternative theater --- Avant-garde theater --- Theater --- Actors --- Society and theater --- Aesthetics --- Modernism (Art) --- Social status --- Social aspects

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Street theatre and the production of postindustrial space explores how street theatre transforms industrial space into postindustrial space. Deindustrializing communities have increasingly turned to cultural projects to commemorate industrial heritage while simultaneously generating surplus value and jobs in a changing economy. Through analysis of French street theatre companies working out of converted industrial sites, this book reveals how theatre and performance more generally participate in and make historical sense of ongoing urban and economic change. The book argues, firstly, that deindustrialization and redevelopment rely on the spatial and temporal logics of theatre and performance. Redevelopment requires theatrical events and performative acts that revise, resituate, and re-embody particular pasts. The book proposes working memory as a central metaphor for these processes. The book argues, secondly, that in contemporary France street theatre has emerged as working memory's privileged artistic form. If the transition from industrial to postindustrial space relies on theatrical logics, those logics will manifest differently depending on geographic context. The book links the proliferation of street theatre in France since the 1970s to the crisis in Fordist-Taylorist modernity. How have street theatre companies converted spaces of manufacturing into spaces of theatrical production? How do these companies (with municipal governments and developers) connect their work to the work that occurred in these spaces in the past? How do those connections manifest in theatrical events, and how do such events give shape and meaning to redevelopment? Street theatre’s function is both economic and historiographic. It makes the past intelligible as past and useful to the present.

Street theater. --- Theater --- Drama --- Theater and society. --- Public spaces. --- History --- History and criticism. --- street theatre --- postindustrial space --- deindustrialization --- redevelopment --- working memory --- theatricality --- performativity --- theatre historiography