Theatre is at its best when it is disobedient when it argues back to society But what enables it to achieve this impact? What makes it a force to be reckoned with? What are the principles & the tools of the trade that shape it to be effective powerful & resonant? Drawing from both theory & practice & informed by conversations with recognized practitioners from across the UK this book provides answers & makes an impassioned call for artists to reimagine question & disrupt Divided into two parts In the World' & In the Room' the book presents a rounded picture of the possibilities of a disobedient' culture &

Includes:: many games & exercises for creative practitioners In Part One the author offers a lexicon defining the spirit & impulse which characterises disobedient theatre he describes the principles the strategies & the voice of the artist before suggesting ways to survive as a creative practitioner Part Two illustrates how these principles may be worked out in practice when creating new work with the hands-on approaches supplemented by games & exercises to assist in generating material Disobedient Theatre is for all those who have an interest in what makes theatre powerful disturbing or even life-changing It is a book for artists thinkers activists & all who believe in the function of art to offer new possibilities & to change & inform the evolution of society

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Drunken & debauched husbands; libertine wives; vagabonding children These & many more are the subjects of requests for confinement written to the king of France in the eighteenth century These letters of arrest (lettres de cachet) from Frances Ancien Re 9gime were often associated with excessive royal power & seen as a way for the king to imprison political opponents In Disorderly Families first published in French in 1982 Arlette Farge & Michel Foucault collect ninety-four letters from ordinary families who with the help of hired scribes submitted complaints to the king to intervene & resolve their family disputes Gathered together these letters show something other than the exercise of arbitrary royal power & offer unusual insight into the infamies of daily life From these letters come stories of divorce & marital conflict sexual waywardness reckless extravagance & abandonment The letters evoke a fluid social space in which life in the home & on the street was regulated by the rhythms of relations between husbands & wives or parents & children Most impressively these letters outline how ordinary people seized the mechanisms of power to address the king & make demands in the name of an emerging civil order Arlette Farge & Michel Foucault were fascinated by the letters explosive qualities & by how they both illustrated & intervened in the workings of power & governmentality Disorderly Families sheds light on Foucaults conception of political agency & his commitment to theorizing how ordinary lives come to be touched by power This first English translation is complete with an introduction from the books editor Nancy Luxon as well as notes that contextualize the original 1982 publication & eighteenth-century policing practices ...

With an introduction by Kevin Powers A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket We took space back quickly expensively with total panic & close to maximum brutality Our machine was devastating & versatile It could do everything but stop Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire He returned to tell the real story in all its hallucinatory madness & brutality cutting to the quick of the conflict & its seductive devastating impact on a generation of young men His unflinching account is haunting in its violence but even more so in its honesty First published in 1977 Dispatches was a revolutionary piece of new journalism that evoked the experiences of soldiers in Vietnam & has forever shaped our understanding of the conflict It is now a seminal classic of war reportage ...

It is 1946 & the full horrors of the previous six years are slowly coming to light But in Jerusalem Elias Lind can't accept that his brother Raphael really did die in a concentration camp He has evidence that the scientist is still alive but unable to search for him himself he persuades a young member of the Jewish resistance to help Lilya's search for Raphael takes her from the dusty streets of Jerusalem to the heart of political London from US-controlled Munich to an overcrowded & underfunded displaced persons camp before leading her to the devastated shell of Berlin itself But before long Lilya realises that she isn't the only one searching for the missing scientist; a mysterious pursuer is hot on her heels & it soon becomes clear that Raphael's life isn't the only one in question Displaced is a deeply intelligent thriller about how the actions of a few can change the course of history It is about the making of a new world from the ashes of the old & decisions taken whose consequences are still with us today ...

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