The Sound of Silence: A Viewer's Guide to Emma González's March for Our Lives Speech.

Conti, Meredith

In this article the author discusses that in the article "Look to the Crisis Actors," published in the December 2018 issue of the "Theatre Journal," on Post-Fact Performance, she repurposes the term crisis actor to describe the twenty-first-century activist who knowingly engages in performative as a mode of political intervention. Topics include it is perhaps impossible to reconcile strategic, performative silence as an activist practice with the myriad ableist and privileged uses of silence.

PERFORMING arts; TWENTY-first century; SILENCE; STAGE actors & actresses; THEATRE Journal (Periodical)

Theatre Journal, 2018, Vol 70, Issue 4, pE-8

0192-2882

Academic Journal

10.1353/tj.2018.0091