Joan Littlewood’s Post-Theatrical Engagements Beyond Theatre Workshop: A Comparison of the Original Fun Palace Project With the 2014 – 2015 Revivals

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doi:https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.906365

Makale detayları

Joan Littlewood’s Post-Theatrical Engagements Beyond Theatre Workshop: A Comparison of the Original Fun Palace Project With the 2014 – 2015 Revivals

Yazarlar:

Bahar KARLIDAĞ

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Aşama sunumları

Dergi:

Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy 2021 Issue 32, pp.37-56

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000804383

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-4636

pISSN:

1303-8605

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.906365

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This paper suggests recognizing Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price’s Fun Palace project as a blend of the Old Left and the New Left as it fulfills 1960s’ faith in social progress through change in people’s work/leisure balance on account of era’s technological advances and also prioritizes Joan Littlewood’s working-class politics as it seeks to make urban centers accessible to all people’s pastime activities. Fun Palace project was also introduced by Richard Schechner in The Drama Review issue of 1968 and therefore can be regarded in the whereabouts of early performance art definitions delineated by Schechner. Although Fun Palace resides in the dynamic New Left moment on the timeline, recognizing Littlewood’s communistic commitments in Fun Palace idea is a necessary tribute to Joan Littlewood’s life in working-class theatre, and a relevant perspective in probing the social and political potentials of the annual Fun Palace revivals initiated by Stella Duffy in 2014, the Joan Littlewood Centenary.

 

This paper suggests recognizing Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price’s Fun Palace project as a blend of the Old Left and the New Left as it fulfills 1960s’ faith in social progress through change in people’s work/leisure balance on account of era’s technological advances and also prioritizes Joan Littlewood’s working-class politics as it seeks to make urban centers accessible to all people’s pastime activities. Fun Palace project was also introduced by Richard Schechner in The Drama Review issue of 1968 and therefore can be regarded in the whereabouts of early performance art definitions delineated by Schechner. Although Fun Palace resides in the dynamic New Left moment on the timeline, recognizing Littlewood’s communistic commitments in Fun Palace idea is a necessary tribute to Joan Littlewood’s life in working-class theatre, and a relevant perspective in probing the social and political potentials of the annual Fun Palace revivals initiated by Stella Duffy in 2014, the Joan Littlewood Centenary.

Makale detayları

Joan Littlewood’s Post-Theatrical Engagements Beyond Theatre Workshop: A Comparison of the Original Fun Palace Project With the 2014 – 2015 Revivals

Yazarlar:

Bahar KARLIDAĞ

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Aşama sunumları

Dergi:

Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy 2021 Issue 32, pp.37-56

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000804383

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-4636

pISSN:

1303-8605

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.906365

Joan Littlewood

Fun Palace

relational art

Old Left

New Left

Sayı

Makale detayları

Joan Littlewood’s Post-Theatrical Engagements Beyond Theatre Workshop: A Comparison of the Original Fun Palace Project With the 2014 – 2015 Revivals

Yazarlar: Bahar KARLIDAĞ

Yayıncı: Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar: Aşama sunumları

Dergi: Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy 2021 Issue 32, pp.37-56

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 6/2021

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000804383

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 2687-4636

pISSN: 1303-8605

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.906365

Joan Littlewood

Fun Palace

relational art

Old Left

New Left

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Bahar KARLIDAĞ

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Aşama sunumları

Dergi:

Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy 2021 Issue 32, pp.37-56

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000804383

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-4636

pISSN:

1303-8605

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.906365