Performing (for) Survival

Patrick Duggan is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Surrey, UK. His publications include: Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance (2012); On Trauma, a special issue of the international journal Performance Research (2011); and Reverberations Across Small-Scale British Theatre: Politics, Aesthetics and Forms (2013).Lisa Peschel is Lecturer in Theatre at the University of York, UK. Her publications include Performing Captivity, Performing Escape: Cabarets and Plays from the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto (2014). She is a co-investigator on the £1.8 million AHRC-funded project Performing the Jewish Archive.

“Patrick Duggan and Lisa Peschel’s Performing (for) Survival is an important contribution to the study of performance as a mechanism for survival. Its uniqueness lies in its choice to expose the internal workings of communities and politically-organised resistance movements in times of extreme crisis.” (Effie Samara, The Kelvingrove Review, Issue 16, June, 2017)

• Introduction Performing (for) Survival: Frameworks and Mapping; Patrick Duggan and Lisa PeschelPART I: SURVIVING WAR AND EXILE: NATIONAL AND ETHIC IDENTITY IN PERFORMANCE1. Surviving (with) Theatre: A History of the ELF and EPLF Cultural Troupes in the Eritrean War of Independence; Christine Matzke2. Theatre for Survival: Art of Creation and Protection (Kubunda); Ananda Breed and Alice MukakaPART II: A SPACE WHERE SOMETHING MIGHT SURVIVE: THEATRE IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS3. The Cultural Life of the Terezín Ghetto in 1960s Survivor Testimony: Theatre, Trauma and Resilience; Lisa Peschel 4. Imagining Theatre in Auschwitz: Performance, Solidarity and Survival in the Works of Charlotte Delbo; Amanda Stuart FisherPART III: TACTICS AND STRATEGIES: DISSENT UNDER OPPRESSIVE REGIMES 5. Swazzles of Subversion: Puppets Under Dictatorship; Cariad Astles6. Against Order[s]: Dictatorship, Absurdism, and the Plays of Sony Labou Tansi; Macelle Mahala7. Surviving Censorship: El-Hakawati's Mahjoob Mahjoob and the Struggle for the Permission To Perform; Samer Al-SaberPART IV: COMING IN FROM THE OUTSIDE: THEATRE, COMMUNITY, CRISIS8. The Council Estate as Hood: SPID Theatre Company and grass-roots arts practice as cultural politics; Katie Beswick9. The Art of Survival: Social Circus, Youth Regeneration and Projected Community in the North East of Scotland; Graham Jeffery, Neill Patton, Kerrie Schaefer and Tom Wakeford PART FIVE: CRISIS AND EXTREMITY AS PERFORMANCE 10. The Paradox of Dis/appearance: Hunger Strike in Athens as a Performance of Survival; Aylwyn Walsh11. 'Dis-ease' and the Performance of Radical Resistance in the Maze Prison; Patrick DugganCoda 'Je suis Charlie': The Afterlife of Inspiration; Sophie Nield