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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|52 pages
Agit-Prop
chapter 2|11 pages
Introduction by Vladimir Tolstoy Documents Edited by Vladimir Tolstoy, Irina Bibikova And Catherine Cooke
chapter 5|4 pages
Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz
part Two|54 pages
Witness
chapter 13|8 pages
Sudipto Chatterjee
part Three|47 pages
Integration
chapter 19|10 pages
Living on the Street
part Four|51 pages
Utopia
part Five|71 pages
Tradition