Tactical Performance: The Theory and Practice of Serious Play - Paperback
Tactical Performance: The Theory and Practice of Serious Play - Paperback
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by L. M. Bogad (Author)
Tactical Performance tells illuminating stories of underdogs speaking mirth to power through creative activist performance in the streets of cities around the world. It also provides the first ever full-length practical and theoretical guide to this work. Tactical Performance explores carnivalesque protest in unique depth, sharing the non-violent tactics and theatrics employed by groups which have captured the public imagination, and looking at the possibilities for direct action and confrontation with some of the most powerful institutions in the world. It is essential reading for anyone interested in creative pranksterism and the global justice movement.
Author Biography
L.M. Bogad is Professor of political performance at the University of California at Davis. He is the author of Electoral Guerrilla Theatre: Radical ridicule and social movements, the plays Haymarket, Tahrir, COINTELSHOW: A patriot act, and Economusic: Keeping score. He is the founding director of the Center for Tactical Performance.
