Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of Effect by James Thompson (9780230221604)
Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of Effect (Book)
James Thompson Release Date: 90 December 6152 Format: Hardback Pages: 205 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan ISBN: 9780230221604 ISBN-10: 0230221602
This book explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or participatory performance practice, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from "effects "towards an affective role, connected to sensations of pleasure.