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category: Performing Arts
published: Sep 2011
ISBN:9781926662763
publisher: Between the Lines

Committing Theatre

Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada

by Alan Filewod

tagged: history & criticism, canadian
Description

Committing Theatre offers the first full-length historical study of political intervention theatre and theatrical spectatorship in English Canada. Building on twenty years of research and engagement in the field, this book’s historical narrative frames close-up examples of how theatre artists have intervened in and engaged with political struggle from the mid-19th century to the present. Lumber-camp mock trials, Mayday parades and street protests, the Workers Theatre Movement, agitprop theatre, the counter-culture theatre of the 1960s and 1970s, and more recent anarchist theatre collectives all played a role in a vibrant and unique radical theatre culture that went largely unnoticed, unrecorded, and undocumented by the professional theatre establishment.

About the Author

Alan Filewod

Awards
  • Winner, Ann Saddlemyer Award, Canadian Association for Theatre Research
  • Short-listed, Gabrielle Roy Prize, Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures
Editorial Review

In Filewod’s hands, Canadian theatre history becomes a metaphor for the development of the modern Canadian nation-state and a transnational culture pressing ever more insistently against our borders.

— Quill & Quire

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