RADICAL IN PERFORMANCE, THE

'The Radical in Performance' interrogates the crisis in contemporary theatre and celebrates the subversive in performance. It is the first full-length study to explore the link between a Western theatre culture which, says Kershaw, is largely 'past its sell-by date', and the blossoming of performance in the postmodern, much of which has a genuinely radical and democratic edge.

In staying determinedly poised between Brecht and Baudrillard, modernity and postmodernity, Baz Kershaw identifies crucial resources for the revitalisation of the radical across a wide spectrum of cultural practices. He asks, what next, once political theatre is all but dead, smothered by the promiscuity of the political in postmodern culture?

This is a timely, necessary and rigorous book. It will be compelling reading for anyone searching for a critical catalyst for new ways of viewing and doing cultural politics.