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	Political theater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Political theater is drama or performing art which emphasizes a political issue or issues in its theme or plot.
		And often it has been used to promote specific political theories or ideals, for example in the way agitprop was used to further Marxism and the development of communist society.
		Less radical versions of political theater have joined the modern classical repertory - such as the critical dramas of Arthur Miller (The Crucible, All My Sons), which ask political questions that are inseparable from existential issues involving the behavior of human beings as social and political animals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_theater (560 words)

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		What political theater represents is an enabling device or better a field at the intersection of the personal and public, the audience and the actor, whereby a kind of alchemy becomes possible.
		Political theater is both a way of communicating preferred and alternative political interpretations and emptying conventional political knowledge by replacing old sets of referential signals with new and more gripping ones.
		As political theater the instrumental consequence of such symbolic intensification is to endow jurisdiction with a dimension of inviolate interiority.
	www.yale.edu /ccr/apter2.doc (9409 words)

	Al Jadid
		"Theater," he said, "is not only an expression of civil society, but also a necessary condition for its establishment and growth;" for there is no true theater outside civil society, and there is no civil society in the absence of democracy and respect of the rights of individuals.
		Theater was the battle he chose to fight at a time when conventional political and military wars were being lost.
		Theater halls are withdrawing into the neglected corners of modern cities, left alone to face the crisis and protect the future of culture.
	www.aljadid.com /theatre/0208swairjo.html (2157 words)

	NOW. Arts & Culture. History of Political Theater \| PBS
		Aristophanes (447-385 BC) was thought to be one of the greatest of all comic dramatists of his day, and one of the earliest recorded writers of political satire.
		Shakespeare is fascinated by politics, charting the world of secular power with an avid curiosity, showing a very highly developed sense of the workings of bureaucracy and power.
		Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist and argues that Shakespeare's ideas and beliefs need to be recognized in today's society as a source for the serious study of moral and political problems.
	www.pbs.org /now/arts/politicaltheater.html (2080 words)

	THEATER, Term Papers 2000, Term papers, 051117
		The theaters of Lycurgus replaced the original wood of the Dionysus theater with stone, reaffirming the importance of theater in the city of Athens' civic and religious life, which continued well into Hellenistic times, culminating in the Romans' added changes to the structure and including the addition of the Bema.
		Political theater, at its best, emphasizes an important societal issue of the day and delivers a message to viewers of all backgrounds and interests without being a political party line or single-dimensional in nature.
		Broadly speaking, elements of theater are found in virtually every culture, and modern theater as practiced in America is the result of numerous borrowings and adaptations of earlier forms of ritual and spectacle from ancient Greece, Rome, and Asia.
	www.termpapers2000.com /lib/essay?A=type1&KEYW=theater (3830 words)

	Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Theater (AE) or Theatre (BE and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle - indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts.
		There is a particularly long tradition of political theater, intended to educate audiences on contemporary issues and encourage social change.
		Specific designs of contemporary live theaters include proscenium, thrust, fl box theater, theater in the round, amphitheater, and arena.
	www.enlightenweb.net /t/th/theater_1.html (797 words)

	Sandra M. Bemis
		Feminist theater historian Meredith Flynn states: "feminist theater needs to be examined within its own political context so that its innovations and contributions to the development of theater may be better understood and appreciated" (5).
		The Radical Theater Movement, which included such groups as the Open Theater, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the National Black Theater, and the Living Theater, was motivated by the changes in perception about human beings and their environment (Leavitt 2).
		Political theater, particularly the Black Theater Movement and its methods for vividly dealing with the issue of racism, opened the way for the public examination of difficult social issues.
	www.edutech.nodak.edu /ndsta/bemis.htm (2963 words)

	FSU Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-The Irish theater of the 18th century was a popular venue for political protest, where patrons might tear up the benches in the house and the scenery on stage to raise a ruckus against the ruling British culture, according to a new book by a Florida State University researcher.
		In "Riotous Performances: The Struggle for Hegemony in the Irish Theater, 1712-1784," published by the University of Notre Dame Press, Helen M. Burke, an associate professor of English, says that an anti-colonialist, political theater existed in Ireland long before the establishment in 1899 of the Irish Literary Theatre (the Abbey), the first national theater.
		Burke's finding that a politically-charged theater existed in Ireland prior to the end of the 19th century is also supported by the Irish Parliament's passage of the first Irish Stage Act in 1786, a bill designed to regulate and control Dublin theaters.
	www.fsu.edu /~unicomm/pages/releases/2003_05/release_2003_05_05a.html (443 words)

	Political theater dominates closing days of Legislature - Boston.com - Vt. - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Political theater was the order of the day at the Statehouse on Thursday as legislative leaders tried to goad the governor into supporting their health reform initiative, drawing a promise that he'd veto not only that bill but also the 2006 state budget.
		"This is theater at the end of the session, to be perfectly blunt," Douglas said.
		Given all of the political symbolism involved in the spats, there could be little doubt that adjournment of the 2005 session of the Legislature was approaching.
	www.boston.com /news/local/vermont/articles/2005/06/02/political_theater_dominates_closing_days_of_legislature (743 words)

	Theaters charged up for election season
		In Chicago, this sort of political and social commentary is nothing new at Stage Left, where "The (W)hole Thing" opens a season of new plays dedicated to issues surrounding America's war in the Middle East.
		Politics and theater have always had a healthy relationship.
		Stage Left artistic director Kevin Heckman jokes that with its small theater, the company is "changing the world 49 people at a time," and that preaching to the choir isn't as useless as it may sound.
	www.suntimes.com /output/elect/sho-sunday-poly29.html (1433 words)

	Drama Desk Panel: Voices On Political Theater
		One view of what political theater is was voiced early on by renowned theater anarchist/activist Judith Malina with the statement, "All theater is political." Malina, co-founder with Julian Beck (who died in 1985) of the "Living Theater" in 1947, was one of the celebrated participants gathered to tackle the subject?
		Meineck's awareness that theater in Europe is primarily concerned with artistic interpretation is, however, challenged by Malina who says that "Europeans care more for political theater (Malina's company has spent more than 30 years performing in Europe) than do Americans," whom she claims have a disdain for it.
		The growing presence of non-commercial right-wing Christian theater presented in churches throughout the heartland of American is given passing consideration, as is Meineck's contention that the reason for little or no right wing theater is that it is already so deeply embedded (not necessarily a plug for the play) in our culture.
	www.theatrescene.net /ts/articles.nsf/FI/7851FD2D462A1E0B85256E6D006057E9 (1020 words)

	Theater \| Political theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		But it is merely the touchstone of an evening — presented by the American Repertory Theatre in conjunction with the Carr Foundation and other organizations — that includes a political discussion, an ethnic feast, and a late-night movie.
		In a way, it’s jarring, because they aren’t actors, yet here they are at the center of what is otherwise a riveting piece of theater.
		Sellars, whose production is an aggressive attempt to meld classical drama with contemporary politics, will not allow us the comfort, the distance, of merely watching a play.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/arts/theater/documents/02650464.htm (1315 words)

	yaledailynews.com - At RNC, Frampton arrest is part of political theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In case you thought that national political conventions no longer held any import, that they are puffed up, propagandistic, overly scripted acts of meaningless political theater, the events of this past Monday night will restore your faith in government.
		Frampton, not one known for his conservative political sympathies, eluded the convention's organizers by allegedly hatching an elaborate scheme in which he feigned allegiance to President Bush and the Republican Party, attending volunteer training sessions so as to gain access to Madison Square Garden as a uniformed and credentialed usher.
		From the constantly repeated slogans to the ruthlessly executed mass sign displays to the cynical use of minorities in high profile positions before the cameras, the conventions eerily remind one of a rally in an authoritarian nation, where Dear Leader is praised unceasingly and the party's agenda is a sacred constitution.
	www.yaledailynews.com /article.asp?AID=26029 (983 words)

	sfweekly.com \| \| Feature \| Political Theater (Page 6) \| 1999-11-03
		So it seems particularly poignant that, even with all the help wealth and political power can bring, Brava's ambitious renovation plans remain stalled, and its relationship with the community it supposedly serves continues to be strained.
		Theater Center to City Hall politicians, and was showered with millions of institutional dollars.
		There is a lesson to be learned from the York Theater project, a lesson that has something to do with the dangers of crossing art, politics, and economic development.
	www.sfweekly.com /issues/1999-11-03/feature_6.html (658 words)

	Political theater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shakespeare can also be called an author of political theatre.
		Erika Fischer-Lichte, Theatre, sacrifice, ritual : exploring forms of political theatre, London: Routledge, 2005
		Erwin Piscator, The political theatre: a history 1914-1929, New York : Avon, 1978.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_theatre (560 words)

	JS Online: L.A.'s relevant political theater simply upstages New York's
		American theater's biggest disappointment to me is its extreme reluctance to engage the hot button political, social, religious and economic issues of our time.
		There are no nights at the theater in Milwaukee that reflect the realities of Wisconsinites dying in a war, Americans locked in volatile cultural disputes or profound shifts in the national distribution of wealth.
		So you can imagine my surprise to find political theater in Los Angeles, of all places, while I was recently there to attend the first National Critics Conference.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/jun05/332511.asp (1117 words)

	Now in Previews, Political Theater in the Street
		Karl Rove, the political adviser to President Bush, made a brief visit to a Manhattan nightclub yesterday and netted the Bush-Cheney re-election effort about $400,000.
		The person was confused by a group that calls itself Billionaires for Bush, a collection of activists who use satire to make a political point.
		We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0219-01.htm (650 words)

	democracycellproject: Political Theater
		John talks about political theater in the context of how the Democrats should react to the unbelievable move by Congressman James Sensenbrenner shutting down the hearings on the Patriot Act yesterday, turning off the microphones of the Democrats and their witnesses, and walking out of the hearings.
		What makes his eyes sparkle, and gives you an idea of the energy that keeps him going, is his faith in the creativity, spontaneity, and ability of all people, however underprivileged, to change their situation.
		Theater also attracts media, as electronic tv media is hungry for the visual or related/easily-digested and processed image.
	democracycellproject.net /blog/archives/2005/06/political_theat.html (4030 words)

	Political theater is making a comeback \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Outside the institutional theater, concerned local actors have been drawn back to the original social impulses of theater – to dramatize history and myth, to explore the impact of proud leaders' actions upon the state, and to educate citizens in a forum for public debate.
		The city's large theaters have been slower to pick up on the English-speaking world's current revival of political theater.
		But big theaters such as the Old Globe and La Jolla Playhouse are locked into subscription seasons that make them less nimble in responding to events; both have staged political plays by the Brit David Edgar in recent seasons.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041130/news_1c30guan.html (1030 words)

	The New York Times > Week in Review > The Dangers of Political Theater
		ASHINGTON — The day-to-day minutiae of Washington politics - "what Congress does when the subcommittee on acoustics and ventilation meets," in the words of Senator Ron Wyden, the Oregon Democrat - is often achingly dull, which is why most Americans pay scant attention.
		But occasionally politics turns into national theater, and when it does, the politicians love playing a lead role.
		Political melodrama, of course, is a Washington tradition.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/03/27/weekinreview/27stol.html?ei=5090&en=6297e9043d08bfe4&ex=1269579600&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=all&position= (1116 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| Theatre of war
		Edgar sees political theatre as going in 'whooshes' like a sequence of comets - 'We were due for a whoosh.' The Bush administration has provided a 'whoosh' for satirists - the Edinburgh fringe is swarming with Bush impersonators.
		Edgar's eloquent theory is: 'Verbatim theatre fills the hole left by the current inadequacy of TV documentary, perished under the tanktracks of reality TV.' And while political theatre comes closer to documentary, journalism increasingly engages in a kind of verbatim theatre itself.
		It is a familiar objection that political theatre preaches to the converted.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1292931,00.html (1676 words)

	Komisar- New York Theatre Wire
		To help decide whom to invite, I took a closer look at the politics of some of the plays on stage in New York this past year, seeking to judge to what extent and how well theater is dealing with political issues.
		This story of political idealsim and betrayal is a fictional memoir of a communist family in Brooklyn Heights in the Cold War 1950s.
		This political satire uses sado-masochistic sex as a metaphor for killer politics in the Middle East.
	www.nytheatre-wire.com /lk04011t.htm (6194 words)

	'Gay Marriage 2004' -- culture clash, romance and classic S.F. theater
		In a grand and quintessentially San Francisco work of public theater, "Gay Marriage 2004" dramatically addresses the culture's own divided and paradoxical notions of marriage itself.
		Legal challenges, political volleys, an alarmist governor in a "Meet the Press" turn, taunting protesters and a presidential summons for a constitutional amendment have menaced the granting of same-sex wedding licenses at City Hall.
		But anyone who's witnessed one of these weddings, read about pilgrimages from around the country and the world or seen any of the TV interviews with the aspiring newlyweds can't miss the romantic sweep and hard-won realism of the story as well.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/03/02/DDGIF5ACF81.DTL (1340 words)

	Theater of Political Absurd is a hot ticket
		There are plenty of excellent theaters in the Valley: Gammage Auditorium at Arizona State University, the Orpheum and Dodge theaters in Phoenix, just to name a few.
		Occasionally, some of the principal actors in the theater take their show on the road.
		If they wanted to do something meaningful, rather than just participate in the political theater in Tombstone, they would craft a bill that would discourage illegal immigration.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/eastvalleyopinions/articles/0413gr-mcclellan13.html (796 words)

	Al Qaeda's Fantasy Ideology - Policy Review, No. 114 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		What this political objective might be, or whether it is worthwhile — these are all secondary considerations; but surely people do not commit such acts unless they are trying to achieve some kind of recognizably political purpose.
		The protest for him was not politics, but theater; and the significance of his role lay not in the political ends his actions might achieve, but rather in their symbolic value as ritual.
		The fantasy ideologies of the twentieth century, after all, spread like a virus in susceptible populations: Their propagation was not that suggested by John Stuart Mill’s marketplace of ideas — fantasy ideologies were not debated and examined, weighed and measured, evaluated and compared.
	www.policyreview.org /aug02/harris.html (7058 words)

	Political Theater at the Power Center
		While U-M supports and swears by free speech and expression, it is not blind to the political views behind, in front of and on stage.
		Audiences might miss this political commentary, which created a lot of controversy in India, because they would be looking for anti-Muslim sentiments, despite the fact that the fatwa was issued years later and for an entirely different book.
		Given the political baggage that Rushdie would bring, he says he wanted to make sure that they were on board with this endeavor.
	www.ecurrent.com /art/political0303.php (1065 words)

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