The Playful Revolution: Theatre and Liberation in Asia

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Indiana University Press, Aug 22, 1992 - Performing Arts - 284 pages

"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
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About the author (1992)

EUGÈNE VAN ERVEN is Lecturer in the American Studies program at the University of Utrecht and author of Radical People's Theatre.

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