TY - BOOK ID - 10687400 TI - Anti-War Theatre After Brecht : Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century PY - 2016 SN - 1137538872 1137538880 PB - London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Culture KW - Communication. KW - Social media. KW - Theater KW - Performing arts. KW - Cultural and Media Studies. KW - Performing Arts. KW - Theatre History. KW - Media and Communication. KW - Social Media. KW - Study and teaching. KW - History. KW - War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in literature. KW - Political plays KW - War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 KW - War and theater. KW - Theater and social media. KW - Political aspects KW - History KW - History and criticism. KW - Theater and the war. KW - Social media and theater KW - Theater and war KW - Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism, 2001-2009 KW - Global War on Terror, 2001-2009 KW - GWOT, 2001-2009 (War on Terrorism) KW - Terror War, 2001-2009 KW - Terrorism War, 2001-2009 KW - War against Terrorism, 2001-2009 KW - War on Terror, 2001-2009 KW - Political drama KW - Politicians KW - Politics, Practical KW - Dramatics KW - Histrionics KW - Professional theater KW - Stage KW - Theatre KW - Social media KW - Military history, Modern KW - Terrorism KW - World politics KW - Afghan War, 2001 KW - -Iraq War, 2003-2011 KW - Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001 KW - -Political drama KW - Drama KW - Performing arts KW - Acting KW - Actors KW - Prevention KW - Theater-History. KW - User-generated media KW - Communication KW - User-generated content KW - Communication, Primitive KW - Mass communication KW - Sociology KW - Show business KW - Arts KW - Performance art KW - Theater—History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10687400 AB - Examining the ways in which contemporary Western theatre protests against the ‘War on Terror’, this book analyses six twenty-first century plays that respond to the post-9/11 military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. The plays are written by some of the most significant writers of this century and the last including Elfriede Jelinek, Caryl Churchill, Hélène Cixous and Tony Kushner. Anti-war Theatre After Brecht grapples with the problem of how to make theatre that protests the policies of democratically elected Western governments in a post-Marxist era. It shows how the Internet has become a key tool for disseminating anti-war play texts and how online social media forums are changing traditional dramatic aesthetics and broadening opportunities for spectator access, engagement and interaction with a work and the political alternatives it puts forward. ER -