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Theatre and Social Justice (January 2020): Works Cited

by Martha Schmoyer LoMonaco

Works Cited

Angelaki, Vicky. Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain: Staging Crisis. Bloomsbury, 2017. (CH, Oct’17, 55-0548)

Applied Theatre: Economies, ed. by Molly Mullen. Bloomsbury, 2019.

Artaud, Antonin. The Theater and Its Double, Eng. trans. by Mary Caroline Richards. Grove Press, 1958.

Artistic Citizenship : Artistry, Social Responsibility, and Ethical Praxis, ed. by David J. Elliott, Marissa Silverman, and Wayne D. Bowman. Oxford, 2016.

Beck, Julian. The Life of the Theatre: The Relation of the Artist to the Struggle of the People, City Lights, 1972; 2nd ed., Limelight, 1986.

Boal, Augusto. The Aesthetics of the Oppressed, Eng. trans. by Adrian Jackson. Routledge, 2006.

____. Games for Actors and Non-Actors, Eng. trans. by Adrian Jackson. Routledge, 1992; 2nd ed., 2002.

____. Hamlet and the Baker’s Son: My Life in Theatre and Politics, Eng. trans. by Adrian Jackson and Candida Baker. Routledge, 2001.

____. Legislative Theatre: Using Performance to Make Politics, Eng. trans. by Adrian Jackson. Routledge, 1998.

____. The Rainbow of Desire: The Boal Method of Theatre and Therapy, Eng. trans. by Adrian Jackson. Routledge, 1995.

____. The Theatre of the Oppressed, Eng. trans. by Charles A. and Maria-Odilia Leal McBride. Pluto Press, 1979 (CH, Dec’79).

A Boal Companion: Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics, ed. by Jan Cohen-Cruz and Mady Schutzman. Routledge, 2006.

Brecht, Bertolt. Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic, edited and translated by John Willett. Hill and Wang, 1964 (CH, Jun’64).

Butler, Isaac, and Dan Kois. The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America. Bloomsbury, 2018.

Cohen-Cruz, Jan.  Engaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response. Routledge, 2010.

____. Local Acts: Community-Based Performance in the United States. Rutgers, 2005 (CH, NOV’05, 43-1480).

____. Remapping Performance: Common Ground, Uncommon Partners. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Conquergood, Lorne Dwight.  Cultural Struggles: Performance, Ethnography, Praxis, ed. by E. Patrick Johnson. Michigan, 2013 (CH, Dec’13, 51-1973).

Crucibles of Crisis: Performing Social Change, ed. by Janelle Reinelt. Michigan, 1996 (CH, Feb’97, 34-3238).

Dail, Chrystyna. Stage for Action: U.S. Social Activist Theatre in the 1940s. Southern Illinois, 2016 (CH, May’17, 54-4163).

Davis, R. G. The San Francisco Mime Troupe: The First Ten Years. Ramparts, 1975 (CH, Jan’76).

Dharwadker, Aparna Bhargava. Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India since 1947.  Iowa, 2005.

Drama and Social Justice: Theory, Research and Praxis in International Contexts, ed. by Kelly Freebody and Michael Finneran. Routledge, 2016.

Elam, Harry Justin. Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka. Michigan, 1997.

Epskamp, C. P. Theatre in Search of Social Change: The Relative Significance of Different Theatrical Approaches, [Eng. trans. by Corrie Donner et al.]. Centre for the Study of Education in Developing Countries, 1989.

Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre, ed. by Johnny Saldaña. AltaMira Press, 2005.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Eng. trans. by Myra Bergman Ramos. Herder and Herder, 1970; 50th anniv. ed., Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Gallagher, Kathleen. Why Theatre Matters: Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the Real. Toronto, 2014.

Himelstein, Morgan Y. Drama Was a Weapon: The Left-Wing Theatre in New York, 1929–1941. Rutgers, 1963.

Hyman, Colette A. Staging Strikes: Workers’ Theatre and the American Labor Movement. Temple, 1997 (CH, Nov’97, 35-1718).

Kershaw, Baz. The Politics of Performance:  Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention. Routledge, 1992 (CH, Jan’93, 30-2596).

____. The Radical in Performance: Between Brecht and Baudrillard. Routledge, 1999 (CH, Apr’00, 37-4422).

Kushner, Tony. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Theatre Communications Group, 1991, 1993; rev. ed., 2013 (Pt. 2: Perestroika, CH, Sep’94, 32-0147).

Landy, Robert J., and David T. Montgomery. Theatre for Change: Education, Social Action and Therapy. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 (CH, Dec’12, 50-1988).

Leonard, Robert H., and Ann Kilkelly. Performing Communities: Grassroots Ensemble Theaters Deeply Rooted in Eight US Communities, ed. by Linda Frye Burnham. New Village Press, 2006.

Madison, D. Soyini. Acts of Activism: Human Rights as Radical Performance. Cambridge, 2010 (CH, Feb’11, 48-3193).

Malina, Judith. The Diaries of Judith Malina, 1947–1957. Grove, 1984.

____. The Enormous Despair. Random House, 1972.

____. Full Moon Stages: Personal Notes from 50 Years of The Living Theatre. Three Rooms Press, 2015.

Martin, Bradford D.  The Theater Is in the Street: Politics and Performance in Sixties America. Massachusetts, 2004 (CH, Jun’05, 42-5780).

McAvoy, Mary. Rehearsing Revolutions: The Labor Drama Experiment and Radical Activism in the Early Twentieth Century. Iowa, 2019 (CH, Nov’19, 57-0921).

Montez, Noe Wesley. Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina. Southern Illinois, 2018.

Nicholson, Helen. Applied Drama: The Gift of Theatre. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005; 2nd ed., 2014 (CH, May’06, 43-5200).

Orenstein, Claudia. Festive Revolutions: The Politics of Popular Theater and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Mississippi Press, 1998 (CH, Jul’99, 36-6217).

Performance, Politics and Activism, ed. by Peter Lichtenfels and John Rouse. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

The Performance Studies Reader, ed. by Henry Bial. Taylor & Francis Group, 2004; 3rd ed., ed. by Henry Bial and Sara Brady, 2016.

Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism, ed. by Mady Schutzman and Jan Cohen-Cruz. Routledge, 1994.

The Plays of the San Francisco Mime Troupe 2000–2016: The Bush-Obama Years, ed. by Michael Gene Sullivan. The San Francisco Mime Troupe, 2016. Available as ebook or free PDF download from San Francisco Mime Troupe, www.sfmt.org.

Political and Protest Theatre after 9/11: Patriotic Dissent, ed. by Jenny Spencer.  Routledge, 2012.

Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook, ed. by Joel Schechter. Routledge, 2003.

Restaging the Sixties: Radical Theaters and Their Legacies, ed. by James M. Harding and Cindy Rosenthal. Michigan, 2007 (CH, Jul’07, 44-6163).

RiDE Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance. q. Routledge, 1995–.

The Rise of Performance Studies: Rethinking Richard Schechner’s Broad Spectrum, ed. by James M. Harding and Cindy Rosenthal. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Román, David. Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS. Indiana, 1998.

Routledge International Handbook of Social Justice, ed. by Michael Reisch. Routledge, 2014.

Saldaña, Johnny. Ethnotheatre: Research from Page to Stage. Routledge, 2011.

Samuel, Raphael, Ewan MacColl, and Stuart Cosgrove. Theatres of the Left, 1880–1935: Workers’ Theatre Movements in Britain and America. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.

The San Francisco Mime Troupe Reader, ed. by Susan Vaneta. Michigan, 2005 (CH, Dec’05, 43-2107).

Schechner, Richard. Performance Theory, rev. and exp. eds., Routledge, 1988; 2003. (First published as Essays on Performance Theory, 1970–1976. Drama Book Specialists, 1977.)

Shalson, Lara. Theatre & Protest. Palgrave, 2017.

Shank, Theodore. American Alternative Theatre. St. Martin’s Press, 1988 (CH, May’89, 26-5005); new and enl. ed., published as Beyond the Boundaries: American Alternative Theatre. Michigan 2002 (CH, Jun’03, 40-5722).

Staging Social Justice: Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre, ed. by Norma Bowles and Daniel-Raymond Nadon. Southern Illinois, 2013 (CH, Jan’14, 51-2587).

TDR/The Drama Review. q. MIT, 1955–.
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/dram

Theater and Social Change, ed. by Alisa Solomon. Special issue of Theater 31.3 Duke. 31, no. 3 (Nov. 2001).

Theatre and Activism, ed. by Harry Elam. Special issue of Theatre Journal 55.4 Johns Hopkins. (Dec. 2003).

Theatre for Working-Class Audiences in the United States, 1830–1980, ed. by Bruce A. McConachie and Daniel Friedman. Greenwood, 1985.

Underiner, Tamara. L. Contemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico: Death-Defying Acts. Texas, 2004.

Van Erven, Eugène. Radical People’s Theatre. Indiana, 1988 (CH, May’89).