Committing Theatre

By Alan Filewod

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1926662768
• ISBN13: 9781926662763
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Between the Lines(CA)
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"