Southern Africa in the 1980's embraces ideologies and material realities which radically affect art and culture. The observer can no longer base assessments upon idealist and humanist notions derived from traditional prescriptions in art : the ideological, political and socio-economic contradictions which affect the lives of all people on the sub-continent must be accomodated. The cultural expr...

This article focuses on a specific moment in recent British theatre history: the late spring of 2021 when theatres reopened after prolonged period closure that had been enforced during first waves Coronavirus pandemic. It considers The HandleBards’ production Romeo and Juliet (performed at York’s Theatre Royal) Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream context unusual time. produc...

This article, which focuses on selected plays by contemporary Congolese playwrights, has two objectives: the first of is to illustrate how theatre production in DRC times been devoted highlighting various social and political conflicts within society. The paper’s second objective examine aesthetic technical aspects under study, such as use allegory, metaphors, verbal invention, proverbs, enunci...

the aim of this paper is to determine the different types of theatrical policies applied by the states of iran within the years 198 9(the start of the first presidency of akbar hashemi rafsanjan) to 2009 (the end of the first presidency of mahmoud ahmadi nejad). the method of this research is content analysis. the cabinet approvals within these years which either in their titles or in their tex...

The Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) was in Sri Lanka from 1987 to 1990. Later, the IPKF withdrew due Gruella attacks, political maneuvering and pressure Lankan government. During this period, property loss human disasters were reported north east of Lanka. Because war between LTTE; there no public space for grammatist performances, theatre activism stand still. In environment, two dramas name...

using theater in the treatment as well as education traced back to several thousand years ago. in fact, drama therapy has been used for a long time in clinics and rehabilitation/treatment centers. children theater experts intend to adopt this approach outside of the confined framework of clinics and make it as a general method in the society. in other words, let it face the theater’s large audi...

Since 2008, government funding of the Health Service Executive (HSE) has decreased significantly. Our hospital, Cork University Hospital (CUH), implemented "cost saving" measures including scheduled operating theatre closures. We studied their affect on urological surgical activity at the hospital. A retrospective review was performed using theatre log books and theatre records to determine the...

Though political theorists have emphasized the importance of political discussion in non-political spaces, past study of online political discussion has focused on primarily political websites. Using a random sample from Blogger.com, we find that 25% of all political posts are from blogs that post about politics less than 20% of the time, because the vast majority of blogs post about politics s...