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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP160100272
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Power and Performance: Revaluing Theatre in the 21st century. This project aims to examine the changing function of the theatre in Western culture. For millennia, theatre has been valued as a way to bridge questions of a personal and political nature. As the Western cultural sphere is now organised around generating consensus rather than debate, so this foundational function of theatre is being challenged and must be re-assessed. Accordingly, the role of the artist, audience or scholar of theatre is also changing in fundamental ways. There is now a need to re-examine the social value of theatrical performance in contemporary Western culture. This project plans to consider case studies in different global sites to develop a comparative and critical framework for establishing the new cultural politics of theatre and the re-evaluation of the arts.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 08-2016
End Date: 03-2020
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $137,455.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Performing Arts and Creative Writing | Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
