The Playful Revolution: Theatre and Liberation in Asia"The Playful Revolution is an entertaining journal.... exemplary... " -- Illusions "The Playful Revolution breaks new ground by documenting developmental theatre in Asia in its current socio-political and economic ethos... " -- New Theatre Quarterly "[T]his book is the account of a personal journey through Asia, a written documentary of a quest to find political theatre that really works and that possesses a vitality and passion that the contemporary Western theatre seems to have lost." -- from the book In this groundbreaking book, van Erven reports on the liberation theatre movements throughout Asia, which include a diverse collection of creative artists whose politics range from liberal to revolutionary but who all share a common goal of using grass-roots theatre as an agent of liberation. |
Contents
Revolution Freedom and Theatre | 1 |
Building Stages of People Power The Philippines Educational Theater Association | 29 |
Inside the Philippine Theatre of Liberation Network | 62 |
Resistance Theatre in South Korea Above and Underground | 93 |
The Factionalized Indian Theatre of Liberation | 112 |
Killed in Action Safdar Hashmis Street Theatre in Delhi | 138 |
Of Stages and Mosques The Irresistible Tise of Pakistans Political Theatre | 155 |
Beyond the Shadows of Wayang Theatre of Liberation in Indonesia | 182 |
Theatre of Liberation Experiments in Thailand | 205 |
Conclusion | 226 |
NOTES | 241 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 255 |
INDEX | 271 |