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Theatre and War : Notes From the Field by Nandita Dinesh, Open Book Publishers is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"Nandita Dinesh places Kipling's "six honest serving-men" (who, what, when, where, why, how) in productive conversation with her own experiences in conflict zones across the world to offer a theoretical and practical reflection on making theatre in times of war. This timely and important book weaves together Dinesh's personal narrative with the public story of modern conflict, illustrating as it does, the importance of theatre as a force for ethical deliberation and social justice. In it Dinesh asks how theatre might intervene in times and places of conflict and how we might reflect on such interventions. In pursuit of answers, Theatre and War adopts the methods of auto-ethnography, positioning the theatrical practitioner at the heart of conflict zones in northern Uganda, Guatemala, Northern Ireland, Mexico, Rwanda, Kenya, Nagaland, and Kashmir. No longer a detached observer, the researcher and practitioner has to be able to meld theory with practice; to speak to 'doing', without undervaluing the importance of 'thinking about doing'. Each chapter approaches the need for a synthesis of theory and practice by way of a term of inquiry--Why, Where, Who, What, When--and each is equipped

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Author

Nandita Dinesh, Open Book Publishers

Publisher

Open Book Publishers

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781783742608

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Art