Radical Doubt

The Joker System, after Boal

Mady Schutzman

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Routledge
24 July 2018

Performance art; Theatre Studies; Cultural studies

Radical Doubt investigates ethical play across a spectrum of performances, on and off the stage. In witty, recursive, personal, and propulsive prose, Mady Schutzman elaborates on the Joker System, conceived by Augusto Boal, best known for Theatre of the Oppressed. The Joker System is a collaborative approach to representing social dilemmas through a rare fusion of destabilizing ambiguity and journalistic rigor. Schutzman models the Joker System while expanding well beyond the theatrical. In polyphonic compositions that perform their own philosophy, she uncovers illuminating links between calculus and conjuring, kōans and resistance, humor and witnessing, complexity theory and sorely needed new practices of living in our divisive times.□ These life practices rely upon crafty and circuitous strategies to deliver their subversive punch. Jok(er)ing matters, Schutzman insists. When communities fragment and identities fixate, enter the trickster!

Sonja Kuftinec Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota

By: Mady Schutzman
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138210028
ISBN 10: 1138210021
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 24 July 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Acknowledgments Introduction The joker runs wild SECTION I The Joker System on the stage Chapter 1 What a riot! Chapter 2 UPSET! SECTION II The Joker System off the stage Chapter 3 Being approximate: the Ganser syndrome and beyond Chapter 4 What we talk about when we talk about community Part I Ritual: play, paradox, and communitas Part II Joint work, joke work Part III A case study: Llano del Rio Chapter 5 Encyclopedia of radical doubt Chapter 6 The joker never dies: the world ""as if"" (In)conclusion Bibliography Index"

Mady Schutzman is a writer, scholar, theatre artist, and filmmaker. She is author of The Real Thing: Performance, Hysteria, and Advertising and co-editor, with Jan Cohen-Cruz, of two anthologies on the work of Augusto Boal. Schutzman is Faculty Emerita at California Institute of the Arts.

Reviews for Radical Doubt: The Joker System, after Boal

"""These chapters are populated with jokers, clowns, schlemiels, fools, tricksters and comediennes, all of whom test the boundaries of meaning and find novel ways of telling the truth. Schutzman’s deep expertise in Augusto Boal’s Joker System opens a major chapter of political theater history to our contested present, offering readers methods for imagining a different future, and that’s no joke."" - Malik Gaines, Performance Studies, NYU ""I had the good fortune to see Schutzman’s play UPSET! back in 2006, and I can testify to the innovative, radical nature of seeing the Joker System in action. A lifetime’s worth of experiment and study with the capacity to unsettle our thinking has produced a warm, eclectic, and totally original work."" - Maggie Nelson, Author of The Argonauts ""A fine example of Boal's legacy in action--with wit and wisdom Schutzman captures the potential of a 'system' that not only resists convention but offers a transformative and at times subversive theoretical framework and performance practice."" - Sara Brady, Bronx Community College ""Reading this book feels like an affirmation of my own work, and that of many of the people I work with. It is also a guide and a challenge. It is a joy to have someone writing about this kind of work as she [Schutzman] does."" - Lib Spry, McGill University ""These chapters are populated with jokers, clowns, schlemiels, fools, tricksters and comediennes, all of whom test the boundaries of meaning and find novel ways of telling the truth. Schutzman’s deep expertise in Augusto Boal’s Joker System opens a major chapter of political theater history to our contested present, offering readers methods for imagining a different future, and that’s no joke."" -- Malik Gaines, Performance Studies, NYU ""I had the good fortune to see Schutzman’s play UPSET! back in 2006, and I can testify to the innovative, radical nature of seeing the Joker System in action. A lifetime’s worth of experiment and study with the capacity to unsettle our thinking has produced a warm, eclectic, and totally original work."" -- Maggie Nelson, Author of The Argonauts ""A fine example of Boal's legacy in action – with wit and wisdom Schutzman captures the potential of a 'system' that not only resists convention but offers a transformative and at times subversive theoretical framework and performance practice."" -- Sara Brady, Bronx Community College"