Authors: Jan Cohen-Cruz
ISBN-13: 9780415152310, ISBN-10: 0415152313
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: June 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Radical Street Performance is the first volume to collect together the fascinating array of writings by activists, directors, performers, critics, scholars and journalists who have documented street theatre around the world.
More than thirty essays explore the myriad forms this most public of performances can take:
• agit-prop
• invisible theatre
• demonstrations and rallies
• direct action
• puppetry
• parades and pageants
• performance art
• guerrilla theatre
• circuses These essays look at performaces in Europe, Africa, China, India and both the Americas. They describe engagement with issues as diverse as abortion, colonialism, the environment and homophobia, to name only a few. Introduced by editor Jan Cohen-Cruz, the essays are organized into thematic sections: Agitating; Witnessing; Involving; Imagining; and Popularizing.
Radical Street Performance is an inspiring testimony to this international performance phenomenon, and an invaluable record of a form of theatre which continues to flourish in a televisual age.
List of illustrations | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
List of contributors | ||
General Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Theater-in-the-Street and Theater-in-Theaters | 7 |
2 | Documents edited with Irina Bibikova and Catherine Cooke from Introduction to Street Art of the Revolution | 15 |
3 | from Red Theater | 26 |
4 | from the Right to Perform | 31 |
5 | from Feminist Media Strategies for Political Performance | 38 |
6 | Aids Crusaders Aci up a Storm | 42 |
7 | Marked with Red Ink | 52 |
8 | Witness: The Guerrilla Theater of Greenpeace | 67 |
9 | Making a Spectacle: The Mothers of the Plaza De Mayo | 74 |
10 | from Border Boda | 86 |
11 | Ai Cross-Purposes: The Church Ladies for Choice | 90 |
12 | Theater in East Harlem: The Outdoor Audience Gets Into the Act | 100 |
13 | Staging Street, Streeting Stage: Suman Chatterjee and the New Bengali Song | 103 |
14 | from On the Line, A Memoir | 111 |
15 | Invisible Theater | 121 |
16 | from Xenophobia and the Indexical Present II: Lecture | 125 |
17 | from Queer Nationality | 133 |
18 | from The Dimension of Social Exteriority in the Production of Art | 143 |
19 | Living on the Street: Conversations with Judith Malina and Hanon Reznikhov, Co-Directors of the Living Theatre | 150 |
20 | from Taking Direct Action | 160 |
21 | from Triumph Des Willens (Triumph of the Will, 1935) | 169 |
22 | Notes on Political Street Theater, Paris: 1968, 1969 | 179 |
23 | from Letter from the South of Italy | 185 |
24 | America has More Television Sets than Toilets | 190 |
25 | from The Street is the Stage | 196 |
26 | from The Celebratory Performance of John Fox and Welfare State International | 208 |
27 | Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp: Performance, Communication and Culture | 220 |
28 | Communal Space and Performance in Africa | 230 |
29 | from The Language of African Theatre | 238 |
30 | from El Teatro Campesino and the Mexican Popular Performance Tradition | 245 |
31 | The Taumbayan as Epic Hero, the Audience as Community | 255 |
32 | A Queer Circus: Amok in New York | 262 |
33 | Louder than Traffic: Bread and Puppet Parades | 271 |
34 | Notes Toward an Unwritten History of Anti-Apartheid Street Performance | 282 |
Index | 289 |