ABSTRACT

Theater and Cultural Politics for a New World presents a radical re-examination of the ways in which demographic shifts will impact theater and performance culture in the twenty-first century.

Editor Chinua Thelwell brings together the revealing insights of artists, scholars, and organizers to produce a unique intersectional conversation about the transformative potential of theater.

Opening with a case study of the New WORLD Theater and moving on to a fascinating range of essays, the book looks at five main themes:

  • Changing demographics
  • Future aesthetics
  • Making institutional space
  • Critical multiculturalism
  • Polyculturalism

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

PART I New WORLD Theater

chapter 2|16 pages

Steps towards a new world

chapter 4|13 pages

Third World studies

part |2 pages

PART II New world futures: changing demographics, polyculturalism, and Future Aesthetics

chapter 13|5 pages

Whose space is it anyway?

chapter 17|8 pages

Tear the pages out

chapter |2 pages

Afterword