Theatre, Margins and Politics: An Introduction

This book explores the relationship between theatre and the dialectics of center and margins, examining how theatre can perform and critique complex power, politics, and culture relations. It includes a range of performative practices and scrutinizes the strategies of representation enunciated through textuality, theatricality, and performance. It is of interest to scholars, researchers, and students of theatre and performance studies, postcolonial studies, race and inequality studies, gender studies, and culture studies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 258 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This captivating book delves into the intricate relationship between theatre and the dynamics of center and margins. It explores the dynamic realm of performance to examine how theatre, as an art form, possesses the unique ability to both perform and critique complex power, politics, and cultural relations. The volume investigates how drama has served as a powerful platform for expressing and showcasing the prevailing social, historical, and cultural contexts from which it has emerged or seeks to critique. By encompassing a diverse range of performative practices, such as Dalit Theatre, Australian Aboriginal theatre, Western realism, and Yoruba theatre, the book uncovers diverse lived experiences and the voices of subversion, subalternity, resistance, and transformation. It critically examines the strategies of representation employed through textuality, theatricality, and performance in these works, while also exploring the profound political implications they entail. This book is a valuable resource for scholars, researchers, and students in the fields of theatre and performance studies, postcolonial studies, race and inequality studies, gender studies, and culture studies. Its insights and analysis will deepen our understanding of the complex interplay between theatre, power, and society, and contribute to the ongoing dialogue about the role of art in shaping our world.

Weight: 670g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367715304