Theater and Cultural Politics for a New World: An AnthologyTheater and Cultural Politics for a New World presents a radical re-examination of the ways in which demographic shifts will impact theater and performance culture in the twenty-first century. Editor Chinua Thelwell brings together the revealing insights of artists, scholars, and organizers to produce a unique intersectional conversation about the transformative potential of theater. Opening with a case study of the New WORLD Theater and moving on to a fascinating range of essays, the book looks at five main themes:
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Contents
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New WORLD Theater | 7 |
Fertile ground how New WORLD Theater began | 9 |
Steps towards a new world | 22 |
Imagining and restaging otherwise New WORLD Theater memory work and multiculturalist critique | 38 |
Third World studies | 47 |
All the stages a world the organization of international multicultural and global theater companies in the US | 60 |
Homes at the ends of the WORLD repertoires of access and agency out of New WORLD Theater 19792009 | 73 |
Life as primary text Youth Speaks through the new world | 122 |
Hip Hop as pedagogy the Hip Hop Theatre Initiative | 135 |
An uncharted persistence alternative minoritarian theater in austere Chicago | 152 |
Whose space is it anyway? | 168 |
A future for American Indian theater? | 173 |
Culture ethnicity and the inherent theater of hiphop | 183 |
We are not alone a community of common values | 198 |
Tear the pages out | 210 |
Imagining a New WORLD Asian American women playwrights archives in western Massachusetts | 82 |
New world futures changing demographics polyculturalism and Future Aesthetics | 97 |
Beyond demographics Cornerstone New WORLD INTAR and the Theater of the Possible | 99 |
Who tells your story? Hamilton Future Aesthetics and Haiti | 109 |
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