The Pitfalls of Theatrical Consciousness

• Main Author: Pilkington, Lionel
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Btheatre and political emancipation; decolonization; theatre of modernity; capitalism; bourgeois nationalism; Frantz Fanon; postcolonialism; neoliberalism; Fordism; Post- Fordism; Irish drama; performance management
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss21/31; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1527/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n21_2022_2013_202014_5D_205.10_ForumKritika_Pilkington.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Beginning with Frantz Fanon’s description of the problematic yet energizing effects of decolonization in The Wretched of the Earth (1961), this essay discusses the ways in which the theatre of modernity appears especially attractive to anti-colonial and post-colonial nationalist movements. This domi...