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Michael Shane Boyle

Queen Mary University of London
Verified email at qmul.ac.uk
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Performance and Value: The Work of Theatre in Karl Marx's Critique of Political Economy

MS Boyle - Theatre Survey, 2017 - cambridge.org
That theatre is a place of work seems beyond debate. But what kind of workplace is it? And
under what conditions does theatre conform to a capitalist production process? At first glance …

Container Aesthetics: The Infrastructural Politics of Shunt's" The Boy Who Climbed Out of His Face"

MS Boyle - Theatre Journal, 2016 - JSTOR
Much has been written on representations of shipping containers in film and visual art. This
study of Shunt's The Boy Who Climbed Out of His Face (2014) builds on such scholarship, …

Marxist keywords for performance

J Blackwell-Pal, MS Boyle, A Dilks… - Journal of Dramatic …, 2021 - muse.jhu.edu
Abstract: Theatre and performance studies is awash with scholarship that examines performance
in relation to its labor processes, modes of management, financial infrastructures, and …

Play with authority!: Radical performance and performative irony

MS Boyle - Cultural Activism, 2011 - brill.com
Instead of rehashing Dow Chemical’s standard denial of responsibility for the disaster in his
five-minute interview, Finisterra surprised the BBC by unveiling Dow’s $12 billion dollar plan …

Brecht's Gale: Innovation and postdramatic theatre

M Shane Boyle - Performance Research, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
What can Marxist dialectics tell us about theatrical innovation? ‘Innovation’ saturates the world
of contemporary performance, even though what the term actually means is anything but …

The criminalization of dissent: protest violence, activist performance, and the curious case of the VolxTheaterKarawane in Genoa

MS Boyle - TDR/The Drama Review, 2011 - direct.mit.edu
The arrest of the activist performance collective the VolxTheaterKarawane concretely reveals
the discourse of criminalization state authorities used to brutally suppress dissent at the …

[BOOK][B] The Ambivalence of Resistance West German Antiauthoritarian Performance after the Age of Affluence

MS Boyle - 2012 - search.proquest.com
While much humanities scholarship focuses on the consequence of late capitalism's cultural
logic for artistic production and cultural consumption, this dissertation asks us to consider …

Aura and the archive: confronting the incendiary fliers of Kommune 1

MS Boyle - Performing Arts Resources, 2011 - search.proquest.com
Michael Shane Boyle is a doctoral candidate in performance studies at the University of
California, Berkeley. His dissertation examines the role of performance, violence, and Western …

Review of Shakespeare's Othello (directed by Thomas Ostermeier), Schaubühne am Lehnitzer Platz, Berlin, 8 February 2011

MS Boyle - Shakespeare, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
In German director Thomas Ostermeier’s recent staging of Othello at Berlin’s Schaubühne
am Lehnitzer Platz, the demands of war swept Othello and his men to a sunny beach locale …

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COFPE MARX'S - Theatre Survey, 2017 - academia.edu
That theatre is a place of work seems beyond debate. But what kind of workplace is it? And
under what conditions does theatre conform to a capitalist production process? At first glance …