Browse Hierarchy DRA274: Theatre, Experiment and Revolution

This module introduces students to a range of theatre and performance practices that offer radical challenges to the established theatre of European bourgeois modernity. These theatre practices involve experiments with theatre as an art form, as well as attempts to involve theatre in revolutionary political projects. This historical survey of experimental and revolutionary theatre-making might, in any given year, range from Brecht¿s communist education, to avant-garde experimentation in twentieth-century Mexico; from socialist theatre in 1980s Scotland to voguing in New York, via butoh in post-war Japan and minimalist dance; from the formation of a national theatre in twentieth-century Dakar, to the post-migrant theatre of early twenty-first century Turkish Berlin.