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Author Schutzman, Mady

Title Radical Doubt : the Joker System, after Boal
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (203 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: the joker runs wild; Section I The Joker System on the stage; 1 What a riot!; 2 UPSET!; Section II The Joker System off the stage; 3 Being approximate: the Ganser syndrome and beyond; 4 What we talk about when we talk about community; Part I Ritual: play, paradox, and communitas; Part II Joint work, joke work; Part III A case study: Llano del Rio; 5 Encyclopedia of radical doubt; 6 The joker never dies: the world "as if"; (In)conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary Radical Doubt investigates ethical play across a spectrum of performances, on and off the stage. In witty, recursive, personal, and propulsive prose, Mady Schutzman elaborates on the Joker System, conceived by Augusto Boal, best known for Theatre of the Oppressed. The Joker System is a collaborative approach to representing social dilemmas through a rare fusion of destabilizing ambiguity and journalistic rigor. Schutzman models the Joker System while expanding well beyond the theatrical. In polyphonic compositions that perform their own philosophy, she uncovers illuminating links between calculus and conjuring, kōans and resistance, humor and witnessing, complexity theory and sorely needed new practices of living in our divisive times. These life practices rely upon crafty and circuitous strategies to deliver their subversive punch. Jok(er)ing matters, Schutzman insists. When communities fragment and identities fixate, enter the trickster!Sonja KuftinecTheatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota
Notes Print version record
Subject Schutzman, Mady, 1950-
Boal, Augusto -- Influence
SUBJECT Boal, Augusto fast
Subject Theater and society.
Theater -- Political aspects.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Comedy.
Alientation.
Carnivalesque.
Chaos Theory.
Ethics.
Fractals.
Homeomorphic.
Play Theory.
Prophecy.
Ritual.
Vaudeville.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Theater and society
Theater -- Political aspects
Form Electronic book
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