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Performance Affects

Applied Theatre and the End of Effect

by James Thompson, J. Thompson, James Thompson

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'Performance Affects' explores performance projects in disaster & war zones to argue that joy, beauty & celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based performance practice, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from effects towards an affective role, connected to sensations of pleasure.

Theater and societyWar and theaterPolitics and warPERFORMING ARTSTheaterHistory & Criticism