Title

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

Authors

Conti, Meredith

Abstract

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.

Subjects

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

Publication

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

ISSN

0192-2882

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1353/tj.2018.0091