TY - BOOK AU - Balfour,Michael AU - Brandt,George AU - Cavallo,Pietro AU - Clarke,Alan AU - Davies,Andrew AU - Jacobs,Gabriel AU - Jelavich,Peter AU - Levi,Erik AU - Macleod,Joseph AU - Schnapp,Jeffrey T. AU - Solzhenitsyn,Alexander AU - Zortman,Bruce TI - Theatre and War 1933-1945: Performance in Extremis SN - 9781789203653 AV - PN2570 .T389 2001 U1 - 791.09409043 21 PY - 2001///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Performing arts KW - Europe KW - History KW - 20th century KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Theater and the war KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; THE CONTRIBUTORS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; Introduction --; Part I: The Aesthetics of Fascism --; 1. The Adventures of Mother Cartridge-Pouch --; 2. Theatre and Politics of the Mussolini Regime --; 3. Towards an Aesthetic of Fascist Opera --; 4. Hitler’s Theatre --; Part II: Theatre, Occupation and Curfew --; 5. The War Years --; 6. The Role of Joan of Arc on the Stage of Occupied Paris --; Part III: Theatre Behind Barbed Wire --; 7. German Refugee Theatre in British Internment --; 8. Thespis Behind the Wire – A Personal Recollection --; 9. The Muses in Gulag --; 10. Cabaret in Concentration Camps --; Part IV: Theatre at the Front --; 11. Brigades at the Front --; Index; restricted access N2 - On an April evening in 1934, on the River Arno in Florence, an air squadron, an infantry, a cavalry brigade, fifty trucks, four field and machine gun batteries, ten field radio stations, and six photoelectric units presented a piece of theatre. The mass spectacle, 18 BL involved over two thousand amateur actors and was performed before an audience of twenty thousand. 18 BL is one of eleven extraordinary essays collected together for the first time. The essays have been selected and edited from a wide range of publications dating from the 1940s to the 1990s. The authors are academics, cultural historians, and theatre practitioners - some with direct experience of the harsh conditions of Europe during the war. Each author critically assesses the function of theatre in times of world crisis, exploring themes of Fascist aesthetic propaganda in Italy and Germany, of theatre re-education programmes in the Gulags of Russia, of cultural "sustenance" for the troops at the front and interned German refugees in the UK, or cabaret shows as a currency for survival in Jewish concentration camps UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789203653?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789203653 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789203653/original ER -