ABSTRACT

Radical Street Performance is the first volume to collect together the fascinating array of writings by activists, directors, performers, critics, scholars and journalists who have documented street theatre around the world.
More than thirty essays explore the myriad forms this most public of performances can take:
* agit-prop
* invisible theatre
* demonstrations and rallies
* direct action
* puppetry
* parades and pageants
* performance art
* guerrilla theatre
* circuses
These essays look at performaces in Europe, Africa, China, India and both the Americas. They describe engagement with issues as diverse as abortion, colonialism, the environment and homophobia, to name only a few. Introduced by editor Jan Cohen-Cruz, the essays are organized into thematic sections: Agitating; Witnessing; Involving; Imagining; and Popularizing.
Radical Street Performance is an inspiring testimony to this international performance phenomenon, and an invaluable record of a form of theatre which continues to flourish in a televisual age.

chapter |6 pages

General introduction

chapter 1|4 pages

Peter Handke

Theater-In-The-Street and Theater-In-Theaters

part One|52 pages

Agit-Prop

chapter 1|2 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|5 pages

Edgar Snow

from Red Theater

chapter 4|7 pages

Safdar Hashmi

from The Right to Perform

chapter 5|4 pages

Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz

from Feminist Media Strategies For Political Performance

chapter 6|10 pages

Alisa Solomon

Aids Crusaders Act up a Storm

chapter 7|11 pages

Dubravka Knezevic

Marked with Red Ink

part Two|54 pages

Witness

chapter 2|2 pages

Introduction

chapter 8|7 pages

Steven Durland

Witness: The Guerrilla Theater of Greenpeace

chapter 9|12 pages

Diana Taylor

Making a Spectacle The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

chapter 10|4 pages

Marguerite Waller

from Border Boda or Divorce Fronterizo?

chapter 11|10 pages

Jan Cohen-Cruz

AT CROSS-PURPOSES The Church Ladies for Choice

chapter 12|3 pages

Dan Sullivan

Theater In East Harlem The Outdoor Audience Gets Into the Act

chapter 13|8 pages

Sudipto Chatterjee

Staging Street, Streeting Stage Suman Chatterjee and the new Bengali Song

chapter 14|6 pages

Hollis Giammatteo

from On the Line, A Memoir

part Three|47 pages

Integration

chapter 3|2 pages

Introduction

chapter 15|4 pages

Augusto Boal

Invisible Theater

chapter 16|8 pages

Adrian Piper

from Xenophobia and the Indexical Present II: Lecture

chapter 17|10 pages

Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman

from Queer Nationality

chapter 19|10 pages

Living on the Street

Conversations with Judith Malina and Hanon Rezni kov, co-directors of the Living Theatre

chapter 20|4 pages

from TAKING DIRECT ACTION

part Five|71 pages

Tradition

chapter 5|1 pages

Introduction

chapter 32|9 pages

A Queer Circus Amok in New York