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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      19 August 2004
      ISBN:
      9780511486166
      9780521817295
      9780521520454
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486166
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.61kg, 280 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 280 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, African Studies, African and Caribbean Literature, Drama and Theatre: General Interest, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, European Theatre
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, African Studies, African and Caribbean Literature, Drama and Theatre: General Interest, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, European Theatre
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
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    Theatre and Empowerment examines the ability of drama, theatre, dance and performance to empower communities of very different kinds, and it does so from a multi-cultural perspective. The communities involved include poverty-stricken children in Ethiopia and the Indian sub-continent, disenfranchised Native Americans in the USA and young black men in Britain, victims of violence in South Africa and Northern Ireland, and a threatened agricultural town in Italy. The book asserts the value of performance as a vital agent of necessary social change, and makes its arguments through the close examination, from 'inside' practice, of the success - not always complete - of specific projects in their practical and cultural contexts. Practitioners and commentators ask how performance in its widest sense can play a part in community activism on a scale larger than the individual, 'one-off' project by helping communities find their own liberating and creative voices.

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    "Recommended. Theater and performance studies collections at all levels." E.C. Ramirez, formerly, St. Philip's College, CHOICE

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