Anti-War Theatre After Brecht Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-F
Examining the ways in which contemporary Western theatre protests against the ‘War on Terror’, this book analyses six twenty-first century plays that respond to the post-9/11 military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. The plays are written by
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Lara Stevens
Anti-War Theatre After Brecht
Lara Stevens
Anti-War Theatre After Brecht Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century
Lara Stevens University of Melbourne Parkville, Australia
ISBN 978-1-137-53887-1 ISBN 978-1-137-53888-8 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53888-8
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First thanks are due to the subjects of this book – Caryl Churchill, Hélène Cixous, Elfriede Jelinek, Tony Kushner and Ariane Mnouchkine, for their generosity throughout the research and writing of this book. Thanks to the actors in the Théâtre du Soleil, in particular Astrid Grant, Shaghayegh Beheshti and Eve Doe-Bruce, who gave up their time to speak to me and made me feel so welcome at the Cartoucherie as well as the wonderful administrational staff at Théâtre du Soleil, particularly Liliana Andreone and Franck Pendino. Sincere thanks to Christian Schenkermayr and the other staff at the Elfriede Jelinek archive in Vienna for hosting me and for their excellent work and organization in this centre. I owe much to the inspiring thinking and discussion with my comrades Edwin Sayes, Jessica Whyte, Steve Wright, Justin Clemens, Adam Bartlett, Firas Massouh, Yoni Molad and my Hegelian teachers Bryan Cooke and Kim Mereine. Also to my colleagues and friends whose conversations helped shape and sustain this work intellectually and emotionally and who injected so much
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