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.
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'a useful text for students and general readers involved in... myriad forms of theatre' - New Theatre Quarterly
List of illustrations ix(2) Acknowledgements xi(6) List of Contributors xvii Jan Cohen-Cruz GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1(6) Peter Handke, Germany 1 THEATER-IN-THE-STREET AND THEATER-IN-THEATERS 7(6) PART ONE Agit-prop 13(52) INTRODUCTION 13(2) Vladimir Tolstoy, Russia 2 Documents edited with Irina Bibikova and Catherine Cooke from INTRODUCTION TO STREET ART OF THE REVOLUTION 15(11) Edgar Snow, China 3 from RED THEATER 26(5) Safdar Hashmi, India 4 from THE RIGHT TO PERFORM 31(7) Suzanne Lacy Leslie Labowitz, US 5 from FEMINIST MEDIA STRATEGIES FOR POLITICAL PERFORMANCE 38(4) Alisa Solomon, US 6 AIDS CRUSADERS ACT UP A STORM 42(10) Dubravka Knezevic, Belgrade 7 MARKED WITH RED INK 52(13) PART TWO Witness 65(54) INTRODUCTION 65(2) Steven Durland, International 8 WITNESS: THE GUERRILLA THEATER OF GREENPEACE 67(7) Diana Taylor, Argentina 9 MAKING A SPECTACLE: THE MOTHERS OF THE PLAZA DE MAYO 74(12) Marguerite Waller, Mexico/US Border 10 from BORDER BODA OR DIVORCE FRONTERIZO? 86(4) Jan Cohen-Cruz, US 11 AT CROSS-PURPOSES: THE CHURCH LADIES FOR CHOICE 90(10) Dan Sullivan, US 12 THEATER IN EAST HARLEM: THE OUTDOOR AUDIENCE GETS INTO THE ACT 100(3) Sudipto Chatterjee, India 13 STAGING STREET, STREETING STAGE: SUMAN CHATTERJEE AND THE NEW BENGALI SONG 103(8) Hollis Giammatteo, US 14 from ON THE LINE, A MEMOIR 111(8) PART THREE Integration 119(48) INTRODUCTION 119(2) Augusto Boal, Brazil 15 INVISIBLE THEATER 121(4) Adrian Piper, US 16 from XENOPHOBIA AND THE INDEXICAL PRESENT II: LECTURE 125(8) Lauren Berlant Elizabeth Freeman, US 17 from QUEER NATIONALITY 133(10) Nelly Richard, Chile 18 from THE DIMENSION OF SOCIAL EXTERIORITY IN THE PRODUCTION OF ART 143(7) Cindy Rosenthal, US 19 LIVING ON THE STREET: CONVERSATIONS WITH JUDITH MALINA AND HANON REZNIKHOV, CO-DIRECTORS OF THE LIVING THEATRE 150(10) Alice Cook Gwyn Kirk, England 20 from TAKING DIRECT ACTION 160(7) PART FOUR Utopia 167(52) INTRODUCTION 167(2) David Welch, Germany 21 from TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (TRIUMPH OF THE WILL, 1935) 169(10) Jean-Jacques Lebel, France 22 NOTES ON POLITICAL STREET THEATER, PARIS: 1968, 1969 179(6) Eugenio Barba, Denmark/Italy 23 from LETTER FROM THE SOUTH OF ITALY 185(5) Abbie Hoffman, US 24 AMERICA HAS MORE TELEVISION SETS THAN TOILETS 190(6) Richard Schechner, China 25 from THE STREET IS THE STAGE 196(12) Baz Kershaw, England 26 from THE CELEBRATORY PERFORMANCE OF JOHN FOX AND WELFARE STATE INTERNATIONAL 208(11) PART FIVE Tradition 219(70) INTRODUCTION 219(1) Dwight Conquergood, Thailand 27 HEALTH THEATRE IN A HMONG REFUGEE CAMP: PERFORMANCE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE 220(10) L. Dale Byam, Africa 28 COMMUNAL SPACE AND PERFORMANCE IN AFRICA 230(8) Ngugi wa Thiongo, Kenya 29 from THE LANGUAGE OF AFRICAN THEATRE 238(7) Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez, Mexico/US 30 from EL TEATRO CAMPESINO AND THE MEXICAN POPULAR PERFORMANCE TRADITION 245(10) Joi Barrios, Philippines 31 THE TAUMBAYAN AS EPIC HERO, THE AUDIENCE AS COMMUNITY 255(7) Mark Sussman, US 32 A QUEER CIRCUS: AMOK IN NEW YORK 262(9) John Bell, US 33 LOUDER THAN TRAFFIC: BREAD AND PUPPET PARADES 271(11) Jan Cohen-Cruz, South Africa 34 NOTES TOWARD AN UNWRITTEN HISTORY OF ANTI-APARTHEID STREET PERFORMANCE 282(7) Index 289
Jan Cohen-Cruz
