Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-223) and index.
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Introduction: Feeling the potential of elsewhere -- "A femme, a butch, a Jew" : feminist autobiographical solo performance -- Finding our feet in one another's shoes : multiple-character solo performance -- Def poetry jam : performance as public practice -- The Laramie project : rehearsing for the example -- Militant optimism : approaching humanism -- Epilogue: finding hope at the theater.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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In 'Utopia in Performance', Jill Dolan traces the sense of visceral, emotional and social connection that we experience at the theatre, connections that allow us to feel for a moment not what a better world might look like, but what it might feel like, and how that hopeful utopic sentiment might become motivation for social change.