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Theatre of Anger

Radical Transnational Performance in Contemporary Berlin

by (author) Olivia Landry

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2020
Category
German, Race & Ethnic Relations, History & Criticism
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487536763
    Publish Date
    Nov 2020
    List Price
    $83.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487507695
    Publish Date
    Nov 2020
    List Price
    $83.00

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In Theatre of Anger, Olivia Landry offers a provocative new vision of anger as more than just hate and violence. Studying the work of a new generation of transnational theatre practitioners in Berlin, she illuminates how anger can be an affirmative and critical tool in the project of social justice and resistance. To develop her theory of anger, Landry delves into philosophical texts, theatre history, and Black feminist theory from Aristotle, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and Bertolt Brecht to Audre Lorde, bell hooks, and Sara Ahmed.

 

Landry focuses not only on the social and political significance of the theatre of anger and the ways in which it rages against racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, sexism, and homophobia, but also on its aesthetic and theoretical innovation. Through readings of key works, Theatre of Anger asks what it means in our present world to construct political theatre.

About the author

Olivia Landry is an assistant professor of German at Lehigh University.

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Editorial Reviews

"Theatre of Anger is a confident and highly readable book, which stages a complex, multi-faceted take on its subject matter. It is well argued, engaging, and informative throughout, managing several trajectories of argument and exploration in a way that remains clear, helpful, and illuminating."

<em>Comparative Drama</em>

"Olivia Landry's original study of the theatre of anger as a distinct genre makes an important and timely contribution to German studies, theatre studies, and to postcolonial and critical race studies. Scholars and students in these fields will find much to admire in the way she brings these fields into conversation."

<em>Monatshefte</em>