Baz Kershaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 1709526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Baz Kershaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Baz |
| FAMILY NAME | Kershaw |
| SIGNATURE | KERSHAW B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Passionate Amateurs
Reviewed by: Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love by Nicholas Ridout Baz Kershaw PASSIONATE AMATEURS: THEATRE, COMMUNISM, AND LOVE. By Nicholas Ridout. Theater: Theory/Text/Performance series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013; pp. 216. In this remarkably brave book, everything goes swimmingly, except perhaps for its final chapter. Until then, its arguments deploy a notably rigorous style of scholarship unafraid of combin…
Performance ecologies, biotic rights and retro-modernisation
This article is based on a paper first presented at the Performance Studies international annual conference on Performing Rights at Queen Mary, University of London, 2006. It has been rewritten specially for this themed issue of RiDE in light of my research following publication of Theatre Ecology: Environments and Performance Events in 2007. Mainly in the format of a thought experiment, it argues that the current ecological crisis of global warm…
Practice as research in performance
Questions about the values of practice as research have steadily risen up the research agenda of the creative arts in British universities since the early 1990s. As American practitioner-scholar Richard Schechner writes: the relationship between studying performance and doing performance is integral (Schechner 2002 1). Yet, where are the differences between thinking and doing, interpreting and making, conceptualisation and creativity located? Are…
Curiosity or Contempt
Human beings in the late twentieth century were increasingly shaped by the society of the spectacle as it was incorporated into the performative society. This process advanced the nature of spectacle as a major component in an emergent global sensorium. This evolution of spectacle can be understood through comparisons between spectacles in history, and through study of why dramatic theory has denigrated spectacle and why legitimate theatre has ai…
The Politics of Performance
The Politics of Performance^ addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation into post-war alternative and community theatre. It proposes a theory of performace as ideological transaction, cultural intervention and community action, which is used to illuminate the potential social and political effects of radical performance practice. It raises issues about the nature of alternative …
Ecoactivist Performance
Paradoxically, ecoactivism, however public, also contains an “invisible art.” How might such “invisible art”—operating where art and environment, performance and ecology meet—mobilize resistance to a global “progress” that is killing us all
Discouraging Democracy
Discouraging Democracy: British Theatres and Economics, 1979–1999 Baz Kershaw* (bio) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. —George Bernard Shaw A society is democratic to the extent that its citizens play a meaningful role in managing public affairs. If their thought is controlled, or their options are narrowly restricted, then evidently they are not playing a meaningful role: only the controllers, and those t…
Pathologies of Hope in Drama and Theatre
In a postmodern world, hope is a disease which afflicts individuals who dare to search for a pluralistic future that does not rest entirely on pragmatism and moral relativism, a future that might have something to say about a proliferation of freedom, justice and equality. This article addresses the question of what theatre and drama might best do in the present, if not to induce an immediate epidemic, then at least to produce a growing number of…
The Politics of Theatre and Drama
Cold War Theatre
The politics of performance
Engineers of the Imagination
Curiosity or Contempt
Human beings in the late twentieth century were increasingly shaped by the society of the spectacle as it was incorporated into the performative society. This process advanced the nature of spectacle as a major component in an emergent global sensorium. This evolution of spectacle can be understood through comparisons between spectacles in history, and through study of why dramatic theory has denigrated spectacle and why legitimate theatre has ai…
Engineers of the Imagination
Practice as research in performance
Questions about the values of practice as research have steadily risen up the research agenda of the creative arts in British universities since the early 1990s. As American practitioner-scholar Richard Schechner writes: the relationship between studying performance and doing performance is integral (Schechner 2002 1). Yet, where are the differences between thinking and doing, interpreting and making, conceptualisation and creativity located? Are…
Discouraging Democracy
Discouraging Democracy: British Theatres and Economics, 1979–1999 Baz Kershaw* (bio) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. —George Bernard Shaw A society is democratic to the extent that its citizens play a meaningful role in managing public affairs. If their thought is controlled, or their options are narrowly restricted, then evidently they are not playing a meaningful role: only the controllers, and those t…
Engineers of the Imagination
The politics of performance
Cold War Theatre
The Politics of Theatre and Drama
Pathologies of Hope in Drama and Theatre
In a postmodern world, hope is a disease which afflicts individuals who dare to search for a pluralistic future that does not rest entirely on pragmatism and moral relativism, a future that might have something to say about a proliferation of freedom, justice and equality. This article addresses the question of what theatre and drama might best do in the present, if not to induce an immediate epidemic, then at least to produce a growing number of…
Discouraging Democracy
Discouraging Democracy: British Theatres and Economics, 1979–1999 Baz Kershaw* (bio) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. —George Bernard Shaw A society is democratic to the extent that its citizens play a meaningful role in managing public affairs. If their thought is controlled, or their options are narrowly restricted, then evidently they are not playing a meaningful role: only the controllers, and those t…
The Politics of Performance
The Politics of Performance^ addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation into post-war alternative and community theatre. It proposes a theory of performace as ideological transaction, cultural intervention and community action, which is used to illuminate the potential social and political effects of radical performance practice. It raises issues about the nature of alternative …
Ecoactivist Performance
Paradoxically, ecoactivism, however public, also contains an “invisible art.” How might such “invisible art”—operating where art and environment, performance and ecology meet—mobilize resistance to a global “progress” that is killing us all
Practice as research in performance
Questions about the values of practice as research have steadily risen up the research agenda of the creative arts in British universities since the early 1990s. As American practitioner-scholar Richard Schechner writes: the relationship between studying performance and doing performance is integral (Schechner 2002 1). Yet, where are the differences between thinking and doing, interpreting and making, conceptualisation and creativity located? Are…
Curiosity or Contempt
Human beings in the late twentieth century were increasingly shaped by the society of the spectacle as it was incorporated into the performative society. This process advanced the nature of spectacle as a major component in an emergent global sensorium. This evolution of spectacle can be understood through comparisons between spectacles in history, and through study of why dramatic theory has denigrated spectacle and why legitimate theatre has ai…
Performance ecologies, biotic rights and retro-modernisation
This article is based on a paper first presented at the Performance Studies international annual conference on Performing Rights at Queen Mary, University of London, 2006. It has been rewritten specially for this themed issue of RiDE in light of my research following publication of Theatre Ecology: Environments and Performance Events in 2007. Mainly in the format of a thought experiment, it argues that the current ecological crisis of global warm…
Passionate Amateurs
Reviewed by: Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love by Nicholas Ridout Baz Kershaw PASSIONATE AMATEURS: THEATRE, COMMUNISM, AND LOVE. By Nicholas Ridout. Theater: Theory/Text/Performance series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013; pp. 216. In this remarkably brave book, everything goes swimmingly, except perhaps for its final chapter. Until then, its arguments deploy a notably rigorous style of scholarship unafraid of combin…
Political science (10 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · History (3 works)