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The Dark Theatre
- A Book About Loss
Af: Alan Read
Engelsk Paperback
The Dark Theatre
- A Book About Loss
Af: Alan Read
Engelsk Paperback

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The Dark Theatre is an indispensable text for activist communities wondering what theatre might have to do with their futures, students and scholars across Theatre and Performance Studies, Urban Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Economy and Social Ecology.

The Dark Theatre

returns to the bankrupted warehouse in Hope (Sufferance) Wharf in London’s Docklands where Alan Read worked through the 1980s to identify a four-decade interregnum of ‘cultural cruelty’ wreaked by financialisation, austerity and communicative capitalism. Between the OPEC Oil Embargo and the first screening of The Family

in 1974, to the United Nations report on UK poverty and the fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017, this volume becomes a book about loss.

In the harsh light of such loss is there an alternative to the market that profits from peddling ‘well-being’ and pushes prescriptions for ‘self-help’, any role for the arts that is not an apologia for injustice? What if culture were not the solution but the problem when it comes to the mitigation of grief? Creativity not the remedy but the symptom of a structural malaise called inequality? Read suggests performance is no longer a political panacea for the precarious subject but a loss adjustor measuring damages suffered, compensations due, wrongs that demand to be put right. These field notes from a fire sale are a call for angry arts of advocacy representing those abandoned as the detritus of cultural authority, second-order victims whose crime is to have appealed for help from those looking on, audiences of sorts.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
332
ISBN-13:
9780367436407
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
036743640X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
30 apr 2020
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
234mm
Højde:
154mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato:
30 apr 2020
Forfatter(e):
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