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War as Performance: Conflicts in Iraq and Political Theatricality; Performance in a Militarized Culture

Michael Shane Boyle
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2019) 63 (3 (243)): 182–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/dram_r_00868
Published: 01 June 2019
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Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love. By Nicholas Ridout. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013; 216 pp.; $55.00 cloth, e-book available

Michael Shane Boyle
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2014) 58 (4 (224)): 177–179.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_r_00411
Published: 01 December 2014
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The Criminalization of Dissent: Protest Violence, Activist Performance, and the Curious Case of the VolxTheaterKarawane in Genoa

Michael Shane Boyle
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2011) 55 (4 (212)): 113–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_a_00126
Published: 01 December 2011
Abstract
The arrest of the activist performance collective the VolxTheaterKarawane concretely reveals the discourse of criminalization state authorities used to brutally suppress dissent at the 2001 G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy. It is one example of the increasingly common strategy of political elites who promote the perception of political protest as a criminal act, a misapprehension that has profound consequences for the future of democracy and dissent in late capitalism.
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