Hedges, InezUnknown
Springer International Publishing (Cham, Switzerland , 2021) (eng) English9783030840099Unknown1st ed.THEATER--POLITICAL ASPECTS; UnknownThis book is a contribution to the emerging field of research-based performance, which seeks to gain a wider audience for issues that are crucial to our understanding of history and to informing our future actions. The book examines the role of theater in portraying the Shoah in France, the French Resistance, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Each of the three chapters consists of an original dramatic work by the author and an accompanying critical essay.
Physical dimension
1 online resource (xii, 216 p.)UnknownUnknown
Summary / review / table of contents
1. Chapter One: Introduction.-
2. Chapter Two: Staging the Shoah: The Persecution of Jews in France under German Occupation.-
3. Play: "Children of Drancy".-
4. Chapter Three: Theatre of and about the German Occupation of France and the French Resistance, 1940-1944.-
5. Play: "The Eagle and the Cactus".-
6. Chapter Four: Theatre of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.-
7. Play: "Kafka in Palestine".