Jean Genet: Performance and Politics

CLARE FINBURGH is Lecturer in Modern Drama at the University of Essex, UK. She has published numerous articles on Jean Genet and contemporary French theatre. CARL LAVERY is a Lecturer in Theatre at Lancaster University, UK. He has published on Jean Genet and avant-garde performance in a number of journals. MARIA SHEVTSOVA is Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. Her numerous publications include Theatre and Cultural Interaction (Sydney Studies, 1993), Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre: Process to Performance (Routledge,

• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction; C.Finburgh , C.Lavery & M.Shevtsova SETTING THE STAGE Genet in his 'Humour'; M.Corvin From Theatricality to Performance Theory: The Screens ; D.Bradby The Theatre of Genet in Sociological Perspective; M.Shevtsova Genet's The Screens as Media Allegory; D. Fieni POLITICS AND PERFORMANCE Reading The Blacks Through the 1956 Preface: Politics and Betrayal C.Lavery 'Micro-Treatise on a Mini-Politics': Genet, Individualism and Collectivity; C.Finburgh GENET AND EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE Theatre in a Graveyard: Site-Based Performance and The Revolution of Everyday Life; C.Lavery Dancing the Impossible: Kazuo Ohno, Lindsay Kemp and Our Lady of the Flowers ; M.Hargreaves Jean, Ron, Franko and Me: Genet, Body Art and Abjection; C.Lavery & P.Woodward KEY PRODUCTIONS The Blacks and Its Impact on African American Theatre in the United States; J.Warrick Las Criadas , Genet and Spain; M.M.Delgado GENET: CINEMA AND DANCE Corporeographies: The Dancing Body in 'adame Miroir and Un chant d'amour ; E.Stephens Genet and Cinema: Adaptations and Influence; J.Giles PERFORMING GENET An Interview with Joseph Strick An Interview with Bill Rauch and Lynn Jeffries of Cornerstone Theatre Company An Interview with Jean-Baptiste Sastre An Interview with Terry Hands An Interview with Colin Chambers An Interview with Richard Schechner More Holes Than Blanket: Rehearsal Process and Political Process in Genet's Theatre; R.Yarrow Index

'This volume will be seen as a major landmark and intervention in the field. It will update and revivify Genet studies and draw attention to his ubiquitous presence across numerous art forms and discourses in the Anglo-Saxon world.' - Professor David Walker, University of Sheffield, UK