LEADER 02553nam 22004572 450 001 9910985882903321 005 20250314022228.0 010 $a1-009-39426-6 010 $a1-009-39423-1 010 $a1-009-39422-3 035 $a(CKB)37772056600041 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781009394222 035 $a(NjHacI)9937772056600041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937772056600041 100 $a20221221d2025|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aStaging Class Conflict in the UK /$fLiz Tomlin 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (78 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 0 $aElements in Theatre, Performance and the Political 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Mar 2025). 311 08$a1-009-59861-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis Element focuses on the frequent staging of the most precarious fraction of the working class in the context of a theatre industry, academy and audiences that are dominated by the cultural fraction of the middle class. It interrogates the staging of an abjectified figure as a means of challenging the stigmatisation of the poor in political discourse, defined here as an ideological imaginary of moral and cultural deficit. The Element argues that in seeking to subvert such an imaginary, theatre that stages the abjectified subject may risk consolidating two further imaginaries of working class deficit that have been confected in political discourse from the 1990s to the 2020s. In conclusion, the Element reflects on the political potential of theatre that rather seeks to eradicate class descriptors, conflicts and hierarchies altogether. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. 410 0$aElements in Theatre, Performance and the Political. 606 $aTheater$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aTheater$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a306.4848 700 $aTomlin$b Liz$01797085 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910985882903321 996 $aStaging Class Conflict in the UK$94339159 997 $aUNINA