Theatre & War : Notes from Afar.
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| Author / Creator: | Dinesh, Nandita. |
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| Imprint: | Wilmington, DE : Vernon Press, 2019. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (253 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Series in Performing Arts |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13513025 |
| Summary: | In Theatre & War: Notes from the Field (2016, 2018), Dinesh writes about making theatre in zones of conflict. She analyzes practice; she describes various projects that she has undertaken 'on the ground'; she theorizes strategies that might be useful to other practitioner-researchers who are involved in similar work. In this sequel of sorts, Dinesh chooses to return to the same themes: of theatre, of war. But this time, she intentionally crafts her notes from afar. From somewhere outside the field. From somewhere outside the practice. And yet, a somewhere that is consumed by the field. And the practice.Through writing that seeks to 'do', through writing that seeks to 'perform', Dinesh use different voices in this book. Voices that come from more traditional archival sources, which are then re-conceptualized as drama. Voices that come from sources that occupy the space between archived and lived experience, which are then shaped into creative vignettes. Voices that come from Dinesh's repertoire - her own lived experiences - that are then crafted as flash fiction about past/ present/ future collaborators. By weaving together variously positioned experiences and voices through creative (re)interpretations, Theatre & War: Notes from Afar is a book that could be read; it is also a book that could be performed. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (253 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1622735714 9781622735716 9781622734535 162273453X |