Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspaper
Author: Sarah Bartley and Sarah Jane Mullan Series: Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political
This Element describes a transnational and transhistorical examination of the living newspaper through the lens of crisis.
This Element describes what a transnational and transhistorical examination of the living newspaper through the lens of crisis reveals about the ways in which theatre can intervene in our collective social, economic and political life. We can thus assert the Living Newspaper as a form of Crisis Theatre.
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This Element describes a transnational and transhistorical examination of the living newspaper through the lens of crisis.
This Element describes what a transnational and transhistorical examination of the living newspaper through the lens of crisis reveals about the ways in which theatre can intervene in our collective social, economic and political life. We can thus assert the Living Newspaper as a form of Crisis Theatre.
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Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspapers traces a history of the living newspaper as a theatre of crisis from Soviet Russia (1910s), through the Federal Theatre Project of the Great Depression in America (1930s), to Augusto Boal's teatro jornal in Brazil (1970s), and its resonance with documentary forms deployed in the final years of apartheid in South Africa (1990s), up until the present day in the UK (2020s). Across this Element, the author is interested in what a transnational and transhistorical examination of the living newspaper through the lens of crisis reveals about the ways in which theatre can intervene in our collective social, economic and political life. By holding these diverse examples together, the author asserts the Living Newspaper as a form of Crisis Theatre.
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