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Title: AFTER '89
POLISH THEATRE AND THE POLITICAL
By: Bryce Lease
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 178499295X
ISBN 13: 9781784992958
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Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 5 August, 2016
Series: Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance
Pages: 240
Description: This book provides an exceptional introduction to Polish theatre since the fall of communism, exploring how theatre goes beyond norms and nationalistic concepts to intersect with politics, feminism, queer identities, the rise in anti-Semitism, ethnicities and history. -- .
Synopsis: 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. -- .
Illustrations: 5 black & white illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Returns: Returnable
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