Performing (for) Survival Theatre, Crisis, Extremity
This volume gathers contributions from a range of international scholars and geopolitical contexts to explore why people organise themselves into performance communities in sites of crisis and how performance – social and aesthetic, sanctioned and undergr
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Patrick Duggan and Lisa Peschel
Performing (for) Survival
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Performing (for) Survival Theatre, Crisis, Extremity Edited by
Patrick Duggan and
Lisa Peschel
Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Patrick Duggan and Lisa Peschel 2016 Individual chapters © Respective authors 2016
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-45426-3 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2016 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.
ISBN 978-1-349-56857-4 ISBN 978-1-137-45427-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137454270 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Performing (for) survival : theatre, crisis, extremity / Patrick Duggan and Lisa Peschel [editors]. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. War and theater. 2. Theater—Political aspects. 3. Theater and society. I. Duggan, Patrick 1981–, editor. II. Peschel, Lisa, 1965– editor. PN2049.P535 2015 792—dc23 2015026444
Contents
Notes on Contributors
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Introduction – Performing (for) Survival: Frameworks and Mapping Patrick Duggan and Lisa Peschel
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Part I Surviving War and Exile: National and Ethnic Identity in Performance 1 Surviving (with) Theatre: A History of the ELF and EPLF Cultural Troupes in the Eritrean War of Independence Christine Matzke
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2 Theatre for Survival: Art of Creation and Protection (Kubunda) Ananda Breed and Alice Mukaka
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Part II A Space Where Something Might Survive: Theatre in Concentration Camps 3 The Cultural Life of the Terezín Ghetto in
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