Counterbalancing the Pendulum Effect: Politics and te Discourse of Post-9/11 Theatre

At the very least, a direct focus on theatre and politics might have constituted a reply to the debate among theatre practitioners (particularly those in the US) about the role of theatre in the politics of a post-9/11 world. As some critics have pointed out, those debates initially centered on whether, in one fell swoop, historical forces had cowed political theatre into voluntary silence if not obsolescence.