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Performance Affects, now in paperback and with a new preface,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. Applied Theatre has traditionally concentrated on effects - impacts, themes communicated or 'truths' revealed. Performance Affects challenges this orientation by suggesting that an affective realm needs to be the focus for a renewed aesthetic, ethical and radical vision of the practice. Performance projects with child soldiers, storytelling programmes in tsunami-affected areas and prison theatre workshops in post-genocide Rwanda are used to demonstrate the limits of a practice reliant solely on effect - and an alternative is suggested: one that encourages a commitment to pleasure, passion and enjoyment as a starting point for a political-aesthetic practice that acknowledges the importance of our affection for others as a stimulus to social change.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Performance Affects
• Author: James Thompson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 205
• EAN: 9780230354326
• ISBN: 0230354327
• ID: 04417391
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 288 g
• Dimensions: 214 × 140 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. April 2009

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