Performance Affects explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or participatory performance practice, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from effects towards an affective role, connected to sensations of pleasure.

Contents Acknowledgments PART I: THE END OF EFFECT Introduction: Hedonism is a Bunker Incidents of Cutting and Chopping The End of the Story? Academic Scriptwriters and Bodily Affects PART II: PERFORMANCE AFFECTS Performance Affects: A Kind of Triumph The Call of Beauty: An Affective Invitation About Face: Disturbing the Fabric of the Sensible Conclusion: Let Them Slide Endnotes Bibliography Index

JAMES THOMPSON Professor of Applied and Social Theatre at the University of Manchester, UK, Director of In Place of War and a Director of the Centre for Applied Theatre Research. He is author of Drama Workshops for Anger Management and Offending Behaviour (1999), Applied Theatre: Bewilderment and Beyond (2003), Digging Up Stories: Applied Theatre, Performance and War and with Jenny Hughes and Michael Balfour, Performance In Place of War (2009).