Contrastive study of the trend of metamorphosis of political activism using theatre in the twentieth and twenty-first century

• Authors: Joseph, Waliya, Yohanna

Abstracts

EN

Ever since antiquities, theatre has been a medium of provoking sentimental reaction and an entertainment of the populace especially the elite. Authors of this genre do present active noble characters in their works making as if it is real. We do learn in Greco-Roman Empire how amphitheatre hosted Caesars, their officials and empiric subjects watching the gladiators and the persecuted Christians in the medieval era. Fifty years of cinema and the television as well as the new media have changed the mind-set of the global community towards life in general to form a unique interconnected universal cultural chains. In this research, we would like to use political activism theories called pluralist theories of Norris Pippa as critical lens to analyse the trend of political activism in the modern theatre of the early 21st century in comparison to that of the 20th century which led to violent revolutionary movements.

Keywords

EN

theatre; political activism; art historiography

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: International Journal of Pedagogy, Innovation and New Technologies
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 4(1)
• Pages: 80-86

Dates

published

2017-09-28

Contributors

author

Joseph, Waliya, Yohanna

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0010.4988