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Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

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Passionate Amateurs argues that theatre in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of work, time, and freedom. Its title concept is a theoretical and historical figure, someone whose work in theatre is undertaken within capitalism, but motivated by a love that desires something different.

Artist / Author Nicholas Ridout
Publisher University of Michigan Press
ISBN 9780472119073
Reference P2407
Date 2013
Type Publication

Keywords

Anton Chekhov capitalism communism criticism immaterial labour love money Nicholas Ridout politics professionalism theatre theory

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