Theatre, Community, and Development
The Performance Activism of the Castillo Theatre
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14997098 |
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| Authors | Dan Friedman (Dan Friedman is Artistic Director of the Castillo Theatre in New York City, which he helped to found in 1984. He is also Associate Dean of UX, a free community-based school of continuing development for people of all ages also in New York. He holds a PhD in theatre history from the University of Wisconsin, and has been active in political, experimental, and community-based theatre since 1969., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 68-91 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TDR/The Drama Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1054-2043 • E-ISSN: 1531-4715 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/dram_a_00596 |
| OpenAlex | W2553228961 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The Castillo Theatre’s three decades of making theatre as part of an ongoing politically progressive community-building project in New York City is a new concept/practice of political theatre. Its radical statement is located not primarily in what’s presented onstage, but with those who make the theatre collaboratively, approaching social change activism performatively rather than ideologically
Art · Ideology · Media studies · Political science · Political theatre · Politics · Sociology · Theatre director · Theatre studies · Visual arts · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research · Law · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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