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Identity and Agonism: Tim Miller, Cornerstone, and the Politics of Community-Based Theatre
- Theatre Topics
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 13, Number 2, September 2003
- pp. 189-203
- 10.1353/tt.2003.0031
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Drawing on the theories of Antonio Gramsci, Jill Dolan, and Chantal Mouffe, the author argues that certain community-based theatre practices--specifically those exemplified by Tim Miller and Cornerstone Theater Company--are modifying traditional models of political theatre. Miller's work identifies and mobilizes politically active communities based on affective rather than essential commonalities. At the same time, Cornerstone's rehearsal process models a means of staging and valuing disagreements and tensions that inevitably arise between such political/communal identifications.