The Politics of Performance : Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention
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...This interpretation may be viewed as ‘debilitating’, as ‘the movement/sector is cast as an object, always as it were, at the beck and call of the dominant order’ (Kershaw 1992, 251)....
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...The development of the discourse may be read as a response to ‘monetarist and market-led policies’ (Kershaw 1992, 251) and as a way to continue the principles of participation by carefully stripping away overt political allegiances and deliberately re-phrasing ideology in more pragmatic and…...
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...An alternative interpretation is that the changes may have been a strategy for multi-pronged interventions into the socio-political context ‘to infiltrate and influence the dominant order, by attacking it on many fronts’ (Kershaw 1992, 252)....
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...This too is likely to be a fallible reading because the growth in diversity led not only to a fragmentation in practice, but also, as Kershaw argues, an ideological diversity and an increased sense of incoherence (Kershaw 1992, 252)....
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