Performances of Capitalism, Crises and Resistance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Europe, Crises, Performance

   1. Introduction: Europe, Crises, Performance

      • Marilena Zaroulia, Philip Hager

      Pages 1-13

3. Returns

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. The Weimar Republic and its Return: Unemployment, Revolution, or Europe in a State of Schuld

      • Giulia Palladini

      Pages 17-36

   3. Towards a Nomadology of Class Struggle: Rhythms, Spaces and Occupy London Stock Exchange

      • Philip Hager

      Pages 37-55

   4. Topographies of Illicit Markets: Trolleys, Rickshaws and Yiusurum

      • Myrto Tsilimpounidi

      Pages 56-74

4. Paradoxes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Performing Politics of Care: Theatrical Practices of Radical Learning as a Weapon Against the Spectre of Fatalism

      • Florian Thamer, Tina Turnheim, Martin Thomas Pesl

      Pages 77-93

   3. Making Time: The Prefigurative Politics of Quarantine’s Entitled

      • Cristina Delgado-García

      Pages 94-112

   4. Theatrical Nationhood: Crisis on the National Stage

      • Louise Owen

      Pages 113-133

   5. Staging the Others: Appearance, Visibility and Radical Border Crossing in Athens

      • Aylwyn Walsh

      Pages 134-149

5. Interpreters

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. The Riots: Expanding Sensible Evidence

      • Rachel Clements

      Pages 153-170

   3. ‘We are Athens’: Precarious Citizenship in Rimini Protokoll’s Prometheus in Athens

      • Marissia Fragkou

      Pages 171-192

   4. At the Gates of Europe: Sacred Objects, Other Spaces and Performances of Dispossession

      • Marilena Zaroulia

      Pages 193-210

   5. Economies of Atonement in the European Museum: Repatriation and the Post-rational

      • Emma Cox

      Pages 211-231

6. Back Matter

   Pages 232-265

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Discussing crises through diverse examples, including the UK's National Theatre, public art installations, Occupy LSX, repatriation ceremonies and performances of the everyday, this book asks how performance captures and resists what is considered (politically, ideologically, culturally or socially) 'inside' or 'outside' Europe.

• Performance and capitalism
• contemporary theatre
• Europe
• Museum
• stage
• theatre

• Department of Performing Arts, University of Winchester, UK

  Marilena Zaroulia

• Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham, UK

  Philip Hager

Rachel Clements, University of Manchester, UK Emma Cox, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Cristina Delgado-García, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Marissia Fragkou, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Louise Owen, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Giulia Palladini, University of Erfurt, Germany Florian Thamer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Myrto Tsilimpounidi, University of East London, UK Tina Turnheim, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Aylwyn Walsh, University of Lincoln, UK

Policies and ethics