Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of Effect

Thompson, J.

Performance Affects explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or participatory performance practice, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from effects towards an affective role, connected to sensations of pleasure.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2009-04-28

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230221604

DOI: 10.1057/9780230242425

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 205