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Performing Opposition: Modern Theater and the Scandalized Audience Book

Modern theater history is punctuated by instances of scandalized audience members disrupting and in some cases suspending the first production of a new play. Such incidents are usually dismissed as riots, as self-evident displays of philistinism. Neil Blackadder's intriguing new study reveals them in fact to be multifaceted conflicts, showing the ways in which these protesters--acting against plays by such notables as Jarry, Synge, and Brecht--creatively devised and enacted resistance through verbal rejoinders, physical gestures, and organized group demonstrations. Offering the first detailed examination of affronted theatergoers' "counter-performances," Performing Opposition represents an intriguing illumination of a largely overlooked aspect of performed drama and its history.Read More

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  • 0275980561
  • 9780275980566
  • Neil Martin Blackadder
  • 30 November 2003
  • BDS titles not on BD and which cannot be assigned
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 248
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