02553nam 22004572 450 991098588290332120250314022228.01-009-39426-61-009-39423-11-009-39422-3(CKB)37772056600041(UkCbUP)CR9781009394222(NjHacI)9937772056600041(EXLCZ)993777205660004120221221d2025|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierStaging Class Conflict in the UK /Liz Tomlin1st ed.Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2025.1 online resource (78 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Elements in Theatre, Performance and the PoliticalTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Mar 2025).1-009-59861-9 Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Class antagonisms and alliances on the political stage -- 3. Staging the ideological imaginary of deficit -- 4. Artists and agency -- 5. Allyship and antagonism -- 6. Making theatre by making shoes -- References.This Element focuses on the frequent staging of the most precarious fraction of the working class in the context of a theatre industry, academy and audiences that are dominated by the cultural fraction of the middle class. It interrogates the staging of an abjectified figure as a means of challenging the stigmatisation of the poor in political discourse, defined here as an ideological imaginary of moral and cultural deficit. The Element argues that in seeking to subvert such an imaginary, theatre that stages the abjectified subject may risk consolidating two further imaginaries of working class deficit that have been confected in political discourse from the 1990s to the 2020s. In conclusion, the Element reflects on the political potential of theatre that rather seeks to eradicate class descriptors, conflicts and hierarchies altogether. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political.TheaterPolitical aspectsTheaterPolitical aspects.306.4848Tomlin Liz1797085UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910985882903321Staging Class Conflict in the UK4339159UNINA