{"product_id":"engaging-performance-jan-cohen-cruz-9780415472135","title":"Engaging Performance: Theatre as call and response","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEngaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response\u003c\/em\u003e presents a combined analysis and workbook to examine \"socially engaged performance.\" It offers a range of key practical approaches, exercises, and principles for using performance to engage in a variety of social and artistic projects. Author\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJan Cohen-Cruz draws on a career of groundbreaking research and work within the fields of political, applied, and community theatre to explore the impact of how differing genres of theatre respond to social \"calls.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAreas highlighted include: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eplaywrighting and the engaged artist\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003etheatre of the oppressed\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eperformance as testimonial\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe place of engaged art in cultural organizing\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe use of local resources in engaged art\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003erevitalizing cities and neighborhoods through engaged performance\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003etraining of the engaged artist.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCohen-Cruz also draws on the work of major theoreticians, including Bertolt Brecht, Augusto Boal, and Doreen Massey, as well as analyzing in-depth case studies of the work of US practitioners today to illustrate engaged performance in action.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJan Cohen-Cruz is director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. She is the author of Local Acts: Community-based Performance in the US; the editor of Radical Street Performance; co-editor, with Mady Schutzman, of Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism and A Boal Companion; and a University Professor at Syracuse University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jan Cohen-Cruz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 041547213X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415472135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/23\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Jan Cohen-Cruz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45897139093759,"sku":"9780415472135","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9cf0c92d-3c1d-470c-8024-4fbac4995e09.jpg?v=1721373250","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/engaging-performance-jan-cohen-cruz-9780415472135","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}