Performing Truth

Name: Performing Truth
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780367490331
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Works of Radical Memory for Times of Social Amnesia

By L.M. Bogad

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Performing Truth collects performance texts by international artist and activist L.M. Bogad, addressing how theatre can present historical, political, and socioeconomic information in engaging and impactful ways. Each script is accompanied by essays exploring the performance strategies used, alongside resources and pedagogical tools to support staging these works or creating new ones on similar topics. The book provides practical "takeaways" for overcoming the challenges of communicating difficult subject matter through innovative performance art.
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This book is essential reading for theatre-makers, artists, and activists seeking to make data and documents compelling on stage. It also benefits students and teachers in theatre, performance studies, and arts education confronting issues like fake news, propaganda, and ideological division.

Performing Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre makers who are wrestling with how to present historical, political or socioeconomic information in an engaging, entertaining and galvanising way.

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Performing Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre-makers who are wrestling with how to present historical, political or socioeconomic information in an engaging, entertaining, and galvanising way. How to make data compelling and documents mobilising? How to keep an audience interested in what might be dry, dire, or depressing? How to surprise an audience and keep them alert?

Collecting together the performance texts of international performance artist and activist L.M. Bogad, this book accompanies each script with essays that further explore that work's performance strategies. It also equips readers with specific resources and pedagogical tools to help those wishing to stage these pieces or create their own work to engage with similar topics. Bogad also provides "takeaways" for each piece, illustrating the challenges of its particular subject matter and how to overcome those challenges with innovations unique to performance art.

This is a key guidebook for artists and theatre-makers facing the challenges of engaging with information in an era of fake news, propaganda bots, and the polarisation of ideological spheres, as well as students and teachers taking on that challenge in theatre studies, performance studies and performing arts classrooms.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367490331

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 November 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 61 Halftones, black and white; 61 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 390g

Pages: 270

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Arts & Culture L.M. Bogad Non-Fiction

About the Author

L.M. Bogad is Professor of political performance and Chair of the Theatre and Dance Department at UC Davis. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, and author of the books Tactical Performance: The Theory and Practice of Serious Play, Electoral Guerrilla Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements, the plays Orwell's War, Haymarket, and Tahrir, and creator/host of The Plague podcast.