Colette Conroy is director of the Institute of Arts, University of Cumbria, UK. Nic Fryer is senior lecturer and course leader of the MA in performing arts at Bucks New University and a director.

Although a decade has passed since the English publication of the Emancipated Spectator, Rancière’s thought has lost none of its power to unsettle preconceptions regarding art and politics. Fryer and Conroy's timely volume proves the point. Its judicious selection of essays probe the potentialities and – yes – frustrations for theatre and performance scholars engaging with the dissensus at the heart of Rancière’s project.

• IntroductionNIC FRYER - Rancière’s Theatrocracy Within and Beyond the TheatreSection 1: Aesthetics and Politics, Politics and Aesthetics1. RYAN ANTHONY HATCH - The Politics of Aesthetics, in a State of Disruption 2. LIESBETH GROOT NIBBELINK - Soft Shivers, Sweaty Politics: Dramaturgy and the Pensive Body Section 2: The Role of Theatre and Performance 3. SHULAMITH LEV-ALADGEM - Performing Philosophy: Rancière as Playwright, Director and Performer in The Ignorant Schoolmaster 4. ADRIAN KEAR - Staging the People: Performance, Presence and Representation 5. NIC FRYER - ‘Apart, we are together. Together, we are apart’: Rancière’s Community of Translators in Theory and Theatre Section 3: Spectatorship and Participation6. JENNY HUGHES - Nights of Theatrical Labour in the Victorian Workhouse 7. WILL SHÜLER - The Emancipated Educator: Chance, Will, and Equality in Higher Education Role-Immersion Pedagogies Section 4: Performance as Political Disruption8. JANELLE REINELT - Resisting Rancière 9. CAOIMHE MADER McGUINNESS - Dissensual Reproductions in You Should See the Other Guy’s Land of the Three Towers10. STEPHEN SCOTT-BOTTOMS - The Paradoxes of Performing Activism: Art, Oil and Liberate Tate

Colette Conroy is director of the Institute of Arts, University of Cumbria, UK. Nic Fryer is senior lecturer and course leader of the MA in performing arts at Bucks New University and a director.

Although a decade has passed since the English publication of the Emancipated Spectator, Rancière’s thought has lost none of its power to unsettle preconceptions regarding art and politics. Fryer and Conroy's timely volume proves the point. Its judicious selection of essays probe the potentialities and – yes – frustrations for theatre and performance scholars engaging with the dissensus at the heart of Rancière’s project.

• IntroductionNIC FRYER - Rancière’s Theatrocracy Within and Beyond the TheatreSection 1: Aesthetics and Politics, Politics and Aesthetics1. RYAN ANTHONY HATCH - The Politics of Aesthetics, in a State of Disruption 2. LIESBETH GROOT NIBBELINK - Soft Shivers, Sweaty Politics: Dramaturgy and the Pensive Body Section 2: The Role of Theatre and Performance 3. SHULAMITH LEV-ALADGEM - Performing Philosophy: Rancière as Playwright, Director and Performer in The Ignorant Schoolmaster 4. ADRIAN KEAR - Staging the People: Performance, Presence and Representation 5. NIC FRYER - ‘Apart, we are together. Together, we are apart’: Rancière’s Community of Translators in Theory and Theatre Section 3: Spectatorship and Participation6. JENNY HUGHES - Nights of Theatrical Labour in the Victorian Workhouse 7. WILL SHÜLER - The Emancipated Educator: Chance, Will, and Equality in Higher Education Role-Immersion Pedagogies Section 4: Performance as Political Disruption8. JANELLE REINELT - Resisting Rancière 9. CAOIMHE MADER McGUINNESS - Dissensual Reproductions in You Should See the Other Guy’s Land of the Three Towers10. STEPHEN SCOTT-BOTTOMS - The Paradoxes of Performing Activism: Art, Oil and Liberate Tate