Theatre and Revolution

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Theater and Revolution explores the dynamic and complex relationship between theatrical expression and revolutionary movements across diverse historical and cultural landscapes.

Theatre and Revolution explores the dynamic and complex relationship between theatrical expression and revolutionary movements across diverse historical and cultural landscapes.

This illuminating volume examines the intricate connections between theater and revolution through a global lens, featuring scholarly essays that analyze performances during revolutionary periods and theater’s role in preserving, transmitting, and reimagining revolutionary histories. Organized around three key paradigms – theater as an archive of past revolutions, revolutionary time, and revolutionary spaces – the collection offers rich insights into revolutionary and performance practices across Chile, China, Cuba, Egypt, France, Germany, the Caribbean, Iran, Mexico, Russia, the United States, Venezuela, and beyond. Through careful analysis of site-specific examples, the book reveals how theatrical expressions both document and actively participate in revolutionary processes, highlighting the uncanny parallels and stark differences in how revolution manifests through performance across different cultural contexts.

This book will appeal to scholars and students in theater and performance studies, history, political science, and cultural studies who seek to understand how revolutionary movements are embodied, remembered, and reimagined through theatrical practice.

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Contributor Biographies

Acknowledgements

“Introduction: Archives, Temporalities, and Spaces of Revolution”

Logan J. Connors, Lillian Manzor, Emily Sahakian

I. Performance Archives, Repertoires, and Memories of Revolution

Chapter 1

“Of Riots and Representations: The Case of Auguste Macouba’s Play Eïa! Man-maille là!”

Andy Stafford

Chapter 2

“Rocking the Canboulay: Trinidad’s Jamette Carnival Outside the Shadow of Revolt”

Stephen Cedars

Chapter 3

“The National Discourse of a Revolution: Theatrical Censorship and Chavismo Performativity”

Neta Kanny

Chapter 4

“Performing Tropicana: Cuban-American Theater Between Memory and Revolution”

Lilianne Lugo Herrera

Chapter 5

“Theater Adaptation as a Critical Reservoir of the Mexican Revolution’s Memories in Mendoza by Los Colochos Teatro”

Maritza Beatriz García Rodríguez

II. Ruptures and Repetitions of Revolutionary Time

Chapter 6

“Repeat Performances: Rehearsing the French Revolution in Late Qing Chinese Theater”

Cecilia Feilla

Chapter 7

“Revolutionary Avant-Garde Puppetry from Germany, through Japan, to China”

Siyuan Liu

Chapter 8

“Heiner Müller, The Mission, and Revolutionary Time”

Liam Johnston-McCondach

Chapter 9

“Performing Revolution in the Age of Revolutions: Guillaume Tell across the Revolutionary Chasm”

Marc H. Lerner

Chapter 10

“Revolutionary Time in Edouard Glissant’s Monsieur Toussaint and Maryse Condé’s An tan révolisyon”

Soraya Limare

III. Places and Spaces of Revolutionary Performance

Chapter 11

“Three Stages of Iranian Theater in Revolution”

Yassaman Khajehi

Chapter 12

“Spatial Interventions and Material Re-appropriations: Resisting the Aestheticization of Reality in the New York Young Lords’ Garbage Offensive(s)”

Briana Beeman

Chapter 13

“Retaking Chile: Theater and Space in Authoritarian Times”

Melissa González-Contreras

Chapter 14

“Theatricality, Performativity, and the Fête révolutionnaire: The Paradoxes of French Revolutionary Festivals as Performed Assembly”

Alexis Stanley

Chapter 15

“R for Rehearsal, R for Revolution: Stories from and About Tahrir Square”

Dalia Basiouny

Index