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“The Playful Revolution is an entertaining journal…. exemplary… ” — Illusions “The Playful Revolution breaks new ground by documenting developmental theatre in Asia in its current socio-political and economic ethos… ” — New Theatre Quarterly “[T]his book is the account of a personal journey through Asia, a written documentary of a quest to find political theatre that really works and that possesses a vitality and passion that the contemporary Western theatre seems to have lost.” — from the book In this groundbreaking book, van Erven reports on the liberation theatre movements throughout Asia, which include a diverse collection of creative artists whose politics range from liberal to revolutionary but who all share a common goal of using grass-roots theatre as an agent of liberation.
- Author: Eugene Van Erven
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- Published: 1992-08-22
- Pages: 324
- ISBN-13: 9780253112880
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