Performing Iran: Culture, Performance, Theatre (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781784535612)

The result of collaborative research from noteworthy dramatists and scholars, this volume investigates the dynamic relationship between culture, performance and theatre in Iran. The studies gathered here examine how various forms of performances, especially theatre, have and continue to undergo change in response to shifting political and social settings from the antiquity to the present day. The analysis in this book focuses on performance practices, examining drama, texts, rituals, plays, music, cinema and drama technologies. This is done in order to show how Iran has been imagined through enactments and representations, and reproduced through these performative actions. The book uses a wider definition of the concept of 'performance', offering analysis of a wide range of phenomena, including indigenous rituals - such as the naqqali and taziyeh - and online performances by diaspora communities.

Author: Babak Rahimi
ISBN-10: 1784535613
ISBN-13: 9781784535612
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Language: English
Published: 09/23/2021
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d