Jean Genet: Performance And Politics (Hardcover)

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction; C.Finburgh , C.Lavery & M.Shevtsova SETTING THE STAGE Genet in his 'Humour'; M.Corvin From Theatricality to Performance Theory: The Screens ; D.Bradby The Theatre of Genet in Sociological Perspective; M.Shevtsova Genet's The Screens as Media Allegory; D. Fieni POLITICS AND PERFORMANCE Reading The Blacks Through the 1956 Preface: Politics and Betrayal C.Lavery 'Micro-Treatise on a Mini-Politics': Genet, Individualism and Collectivity; C.Finburgh GENET AND EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE Theatre in a Graveyard: Site-Based Performance and The Revolution of Everyday Life; C.Lavery Dancing the Impossible: Kazuo Ohno, Lindsay Kemp and Our Lady of the Flowers ; M.Hargreaves Jean, Ron, Franko and Me: Genet, Body Art and Abjection; C.Lavery & P.Woodward KEY PRODUCTIONS The Blacks and Its Impact on African American Theatre in the United States; J.Warrick Las Criadas , Genet and Spain; M.M.Delgado GENET: CINEMA AND DANCE Corporeographies: The Dancing Body in 'adame Miroir and Un chant d'amour ; E.Stephens Genet and Cinema: Adaptations and Influence; J.Giles PERFORMING GENET An Interview with Joseph Strick An Interview with Bill Rauch and Lynn Jeffries of Cornerstone Theatre Company An Interview with Jean-Baptiste Sastre An Interview with Terry Hands An Interview with Colin Chambers An Interview with Richard Schechner More Holes Than Blanket: Rehearsal Process and Political Process in Genet's Theatre; R.Yarrow Index