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After '89 : Polish theatre and the political / Bryce Lease.

Author/creator Lease, Bryce
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoManchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Descriptionviii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Theatre : theory, practice, performance
Theatre (Manchester, England) ^A1034103
Contents Introduction: really existing democracy -- The move to neoliberalism - -No more heroes -- Beyond a tetr kabiecy -- Gay emancipation and queer counterpublics-- Rethinking Polish/Jewish relations -- Equivalencies of exclusion.
Abstract After '89 takes as its subject the dynamic new range of performance practices that have been developed since the demise of communism in the flourishing theatrical landscape of Poland. After 1989, the theatre has retained its historical role as the crucial space for debating and interrogating cultural and political identities. Providing access to scholarship and criticism not readily accessible to an English-speaking readership, this study surveys the rebirth of the theatre as a site of public intervention and social criticism since the establishment of democracy and the proliferation of theatre makers that have flaunted cultural commonplaces and begged new questions of Polish culture. Lease argues that the most significant change in performance practice after 1989 has been from opposition to the state to a more pluralistic practice that engages with marginalised identities purposefully left out of the rhetoric of freedom and independence.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 205-215) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016479791
ISBN9781784992958 (hardback)
ISBN178499295X (hardback)

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