Staging Change
Toward a Theatrical Theory of Activist Performance
Series: Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 23 July 2026
- ISBN 9781350445673
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Language 700
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Exploring a wide variety of examples of activist performances, such as David Buckel's self-immolation, and the January 6th capitol insurrection, this book analyses activist performance through the lens of postdramatic theatre theory.
Staging Change poses the provocative question: are activists addicted to drama? Scrimer examines the ways in which the performance and reception of protest is informed by the logic of dramatic theatre, and argues that such performative arrangements are so naturalized that they can limit the ability of activists and their audiences to imagine different ways of precipitating change. By combining performance analysis, interviews with artists and activists, and autoethnographic accounts of the author's own experiences as an environmental activist, the book illustrates the limitations and alternatives to dramatic representation in activist performance.
The last decade has seen an increase in political demonstrations worldwide, particularly following the excitement and disappointments of the Arab Spring uprisings. We have seen several notable movements such as the Occupy movement, the mobilization of Black Lives Matter, and the #MeToo movement. In response, scholars, artists, and activists from diverse disciplines have produced an exciting array of practical and theoretical approaches for talking about and thinking through activism. Utilizing these interdisciplinary approaches, Scrimer offers us a theoretical inquiry into the possible applications of Hans-Thies Lehmann's postdramatic theatre theory in the context of political activism, and subsequently extends an alternative conceptual model for activist performance beyond the dramatic paradigm.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Politics and the Postdramatic
On Activism and Dramatic Theatre
Chapter Summary
Chapter One: Directing the Activist Gaze
Greenpeace: Ordering the Visible
On Seeing and Perceiving in The Weavers
From Bearing Witness to Being Witnessed
Chapter Two: Absent Executioners and the Spectacle of the Scaffold
The Self-Immolation of David Buckel
Dramatists and Activists
A Semantics of Form
Chapter Three: When the Play is Not the Thing
Political Hobbyism and Deadly Theatre
The Mueller Investigation: A Search for Truth in Ten Acts
Ritual and Live Readings
Chapter Four: Soft Authoritarianism and the Hybrid Drama
Dramacracy in Russia
Drama and the Distribution of the Sensible
Cacerolazo: Ordering the Audible
Chapter Five: On Transgression and Resistance
A Promiscuity of Form
Trump's Theatre of Cruelty
Affirmation of the Irregular
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
