Theatre and war [Elektronisk resurs] Theatrical responses since 1991 / Jeanne Colleran.

• Introduction: Spectator of Calamities Five Political Crises: The New Semiotic Environment Turning History into Happening The Persians From the Ruins of 9/11: Grief and Terror Facing Terror War Documents Bodies Count The Spectacle of Our Suffering.

• How has the media since the First Gulf War altered political analysis and how has this alteration has in turn affected socially-critical art? Colleran examines more than forty plays, many written in direct response to the 1991 war in Iraq as well as to the 9/11 attacks and the retaliatory actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. -- How has the media, beginning with the Persian Gulf War, altered political analysis and how has this alteration has in turn affected socially-critical art? Jeanne Colleran examines more than forty plays, most of which were written in direct response to the emergent New World Order and the subsequent 1991 war in Iraq as well as to the 9/11 attacks and the retaliatory actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. These works are drawn primarily from the British and American stage - the principal partners in these conflicts. The writers include prominent figures (Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, David Hare, Trevor Griffiths, Naomi Wallace, and Neil LaBute), work by theatre groups and artistic directors (San Francisco Mime Troupe, Nicolas Kent and the Tricycle Theatre, and Alan Buchman and Culture Project), and plays by emerging playwrights and by writers who work primarily as journalists or in other media (Anne Nelson, Lawrence Wright, George Packer, Robin Soans, and others). 

Ämnesord

War and theater.  (LCSH)

War in literature.  (LCSH)

Press and journalism in literature.  (LCSH)

War in mass media.  (LCSH)

Political plays, American  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Political plays, English  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Theater  -- Political aspects -- United States. (LCSH)

Theater  -- Political aspects -- Great Britain. (LCSH)

War  -- Press coverage. (LCSH)

Performing Arts.  (eflch)

Klassifikation

PER (ämneskategori)

792.09049 (DDC)

Ikb.59 (kssb/8 (machine generated))