Power and Performance: Revaluing Theatre in the 21st century.

本项目旨在探讨戏剧在西方文化中不断变化的功能。几千年来，戏剧一直被视为解决个人和政治问题的一种方式。由于西方文化圈现在围绕着产生共识而不是辩论而组织起来，因此戏剧的这一基本功能正在受到挑战，必须重新评估。相应地，艺术家、观众或戏剧学者的角色也在发生根本性的变化。现在有必要重新审视戏剧表演在当代西方文化中的社会价值。该项目计划考虑全球不同地区的案例研究，为建立戏剧的新文化政治和艺术的重新评估建立一个比较和批判性的框架。

This project aims to examine the changing function of the theatre in Western culture. For millennia, theatre has been valued as a way to bridge questions of a personal and political nature. As the Western cultural sphere is now organised around generating consensus rather than debate, so this foundational function of theatre is being challenged and must be re-assessed. Accordingly, the role of the artist, audience or scholar of theatre is also changing in fundamental ways. There is now a need to re-examine the social value of theatrical performance in contemporary Western culture. This project plans to consider case studies in different global sites to develop a comparative and critical framework for establishing the new cultural politics of theatre and the re-evaluation of the arts.