Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of Effect

By James Thompson

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230354327
• ISBN13: 9780230354326
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"