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By Christopher B. Balme,Berenika Szymanski-Düll

This booklet examines how the chilly warfare had a far-reaching influence on theatre by way of proposing a number present scholarship at the subject from students from a dozen nations. They signify in flip numerous views, methodologies and theatrical genres, together with not just Bertolt Brecht, Jerzy Grotowski and Peter Brook, but in addition Polish folk-dancing, documentary theatre and opera construction. The contributions display that there has been even more at stake and a miles better funding of ideological and fiscal capital than an easy dichotomy among East as opposed to West or socialism as opposed to capitalism could recommend. tradition, and theatrical tradition particularly with its excessive measure of representational energy, was once famous as a massive medium within the ideological struggles that symbolize this epoch. most significantly, the quantity explores how theatre could be reconceptualized when it comes to transnational or maybe international procedures which, will probably be argued, have been an essential component of chilly conflict rivalries.

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