1. French Anarchism and Italian Futurism: 1890-1920
... attests "theatre is poetry that gets up off the page and becomes human. And as it does so, it talks and shouts, weeps and despairs"6. In his essay Engaging Audiences, Bruce McConachie takes a cognitive approach to look at the way audiences psychologically interact with performers, to explore why the theatre is such a powerful social, political and utopian tool. According to McConachie ... to enjoy an anarchist play is in itself a glimpse of an anarchist utopia of sorts. Part of the reason why this grouping is in itself so powerful is suggested by Bruce McConachie, who emphasised that "t...
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