This book is an overview of the theatre's relationship with the Left, understood as a historically specific political formation that authentically expresses and promotes the leftist ideology, a formation that is sometimes less and sometimes more identified with the Greek Communist Party itself. The Left and the theatre seek, fight, eventually, show tangible an alternative aspect of the real...read more
This book is an overview of the theatre's relationship with the Left, understood as a historically specific political formation that authentically expresses and promotes the leftist ideology, a formation that is sometimes less and sometimes more identified with the Greek Communist Party itself. The Left and the theatre seek, fight, eventually, show tangible an alternative aspect of the real. And this, in the end, is the value of a book on the theatre of the Left: that by examining historically the connection of these two, it is confirmed that, once, it was attempted, either in the political or the theatrical field, precisely the realization of this alternative, emancipated world, of this alternative narrative.
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