{"product_id":"engaging-performance-theatre-as-call-and-response-9780415472135","title":"Engaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jan Cohen-Cruz\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Theater - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEngaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response\u003c\/em\u003e presents a combined analysis and workbook to examine \"socially engaged performance.\" It offers a range of key practical approaches, exercises, and principles for using performance to engage in a variety of social and artistic projects. Author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJan Cohen-Cruz draws on a career of groundbreaking research and work within the fields of political, applied, and community theatre to explore the impact of how differing genres of theatre respond to social \"calls.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAreas highlighted include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eplaywrighting and the engaged artist\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003etheatre of the oppressed\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eperformance as testimonial\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe place of engaged art in cultural organizing\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe use of local resources in engaged art\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003erevitalizing cities and neighborhoods through engaged performance\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003etraining of the engaged artist.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eCohen-Cruz also draws on the work of major theoreticians, including Bertolt Brecht, Augusto Boal, and Doreen Massey, as well as analyzing in-depth case studies of the work of US practitioners today to illustrate engaged performance in action.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJan Cohen-Cruz is director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. She is the author of Local Acts: Community-based Performance in the US; the editor of Radical Street Performance; co-editor, with Mady Schutzman, of Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism and A Boal Companion; and a University Professor at Syracuse University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45235570835607,"sku":"9780415472135","price":13114.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780415472135.webp?v=1769210172","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/engaging-performance-theatre-as-call-and-response-9780415472135","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}