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Dateline: 9th February, 2004 Political Futures: Alternative Theatre in Britain Today Political Futures is an international conference on Alternative Theatre, to be held at the University of Reading from 16th to 18th April. Keynote speakers will include Tim Etchells, Baz Kershaw, Alex Sierz and Max Stafford-Clark. According to the conference website, alternative theatre both reflects and reacts against mainstream obsessions is apparent in its concern with spectacle, new technologies, the body, performance/performativity, the notion of ‘event’, but there are also shared interests in terms of issues, such as multi-culturalism and globalisation , environmentalism, gender, nationalism/ nationhood, disaffection with traditional politics (and a rejection of the State of the Nation Theatre), and questions around bodily modification and interventions, cyborgs and virtual bodies, etc. The costs are:
A booking form can be found on the website, or can be obtained by emailing j.s.bull@reading.ac.uk Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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