Staging Postcommunism: Alternative Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe After 1989 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609386771)

Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe was never the same after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In the transition to a postcommunist world, "alternative theatre" found ways to grapple with political chaos, corruption, and aggressive implementation of a market economy. Three decades later, this volume is the first comprehensive examination of alternative theatre in ten former communist countries. The essays focus on companies and artists that radically changed the language and organization of theatre in the countries formerly known as the Eastern European bloc. This collection investigates the ways in which postcommunist alternative theatre negotiated and embodied change not only locally but globally as well.

Contributors: Dennis Barnett, Dennis C. Beck, Violeta Decheva, Luule Epner, John Freedman, Barry Freeman, Margarita Kompelmakher, Jaak Rahesoo, Angelina Ros, ca, Ban, uta Rubess, Christopher Silsby, Andrea Tompa, S. E. Wilmer

Author: Vessela S. Warner, Diana Manole
ISBN-10: 1609386779
ISBN-13: 9781609386771
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2020
Pages: 298
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2020