... performance appears to be the degree to which an ideologocally-driven hope is engendered. In short, there appears to be a correlation between audience participation and ideological 'hopefulness', a theme exemplified by Louise Michel's La Grève, performed in 1890. As well as containing anarchistic-utopian content in the narrative of a strike, the play was equally a landmark in the style of its ... notion of the mechanised avant garde aesthetic, such as Vorticism, Dadaism and Surrealism. Indeed, artistically, Futurism can be said to have pioneered this particular aesthetic, and although ...

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