Rhapsody For The Theatre
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For Alain Badiou theatre unlike cinema is the place for the staging of a truly emancipatory collective subject In this sense theatre is of all the arts the one strictly homologous to politics both theatre and
politics depend on a limited set of texts or statements collectively enacted by a group of actors or militants which put a limit on the excessive power of the state This explains why the history of theatre has always been inseparable from a history of state repression and censorshipThis definitive collection includes not only Badious pamphlet Rhapsody for the Theatre but also essays on Jean Paul Sartre on the political destiny of contemporary theatre and on Badious own work as a playwright as author of the Ahmed Tetralogy