Theatre and Human Rights after 1945 Things Unspeakable [Hardcover]

This volume investigates the rise of human rights discourses manifested in the global spectrum of theatre and performance since 1945. Essays address topics such as disability, discrimination indigenous rights, torture, gender violence, genocide and elder abuse.

Editors & have collected an impressive range of international perspectives on human rights and theatre. & What the volume as a whole achieves is an insistence on theatres roles in wider cultural (often global) contexts that are about testimony, the recognition of past injustices, mediation, advocacy, and potential catharsis. Contributors offer engaging accounts of examples from a range of places (and eras) in which performance speaks of and through human rights abuses at the level of institutions, states, and international collusion. (Aylwyn Walsh, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 33 (1), February, 2017)

I describe this book as vital to playwrights, artistic directors and serious artistic thinkers alike. & I learned much from this book and it will assist my own work as a playwright. & I suggest that whether you are a theatre practitioner or an audience member, your stage experience will be improved by reading these essays. As I said at the outset, Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin have compiled and edited a vital series of essays. (Hubert OHearn, San Diego Book Review, October, 2015)

Ananda Breed, University of East London, UK Marvin Carlson, City University of New York, USA Cathy Caruth, Cornell University, USA Maryrose Casey, Monash University, Australia Michael M. Chemers, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Catherine M. Cole, University of California, Berkeley, USA Emma Cox, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Mark Fleishman, University of Cape Town, South Africa Mary Luckhurst, University of Melbourne, Australia Michael McAteer, P?zm?ny P?ter Catholic University, Hungary Carol Martin, New York University, USA Emilie Morin, UniverlC(