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After '89 : Polish theatre and the political

Lease, Bryce, author

Overview

After '89 takes as its subject the dynamic new range of performance practices that have been developed since the demise of communism in the flourishing theatrical landscape of Poland. After 1989, the theatre has retained its historical role as the crucial space for debating and interrogating cultural and political identities. Providing access to scholarship and criticism not readily accessible to an English-speaking readership, this study surveys the rebirth of the theatre as a site of public intervention and social criticism since the establishment of democracy and the proliferation of theatre makers that have flaunted cultural commonplaces and begged new questions of Polish culture. Lease argues that the most significant change in performance practice after 1989 has been from opposition to the state to a more pluralistic practice that engages with marginalised identities purposefully left out of the rhetoric of freedom and independence.

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Subject: Theater Political aspects Poland History. / Theater Political aspects. / Poland.
• ISBN: 9781784992958, 178499295X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PN2859.P6 L365 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE