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Craig J. Peariso's work challenges traditional narratives regarding some of North America's most significant political iconoclasts of the 1960s. -- Max Shulman * TDR: The Drama Review * Radical Theatrics is a thought-provoking book that should educate and trouble anyone desperate to change the world and confused about what to do when those efforts stall. -- Jeremy Varon * Journal of American History * This intriguing book presents a revisionist revaluation of the more problematic radical edges of political performance art in the United States of the mid-to-late 1960s. . . . Peariso has successfully shown that awkward decade was up for it in many compelling ways. . . . [Radical Theatrics] launches a sophisticatedly argued call for newly creating politico-aesthetic styles of 'anti-representational' performance. -- Baz Kershaw * Studies in Theatre and Performance * Peariso's study of 'failed' sixties radicalism is an important contribution to our growing understanding of the complexities of radicalism in the postmodern, where performance is everywhere and manifold. -- Alan Filewod * Labour / Le Travail *

Peariso's study of `failed' sixties radicalism is an important contribution to our growing understanding of the complexities of radicalism in the postmodern, where performance is everywhere and manifold. -- Alan Filewod * Labour / Le Travail * This intriguing book presents a revisionist revaluation of the more problematic radical edges of political performance art in the United States of the mid-to-late 1960s. . . . Peariso has successfully shown that awkward decade was up for it in many compelling ways. . . . [Radical Theatrics] launches a sophisticatedly argued call for newly creating politico-aesthetic styles of `anti-representational' performance. -- Baz Kershaw * Studies in Theatre and Performance * Radical Theatrics is a thought-provoking book that should educate and trouble anyone desperate to change the world and confused about what to do when those efforts stall. -- Jeremy Varon * Journal of American History * Craig J. Peariso's work challenges traditional narratives regarding some of North America's most significant political iconoclasts of the 1960s. -- Max Shulman * TDR: The Drama Review *

Craig J. Peariso's work challenges traditional narratives regarding some of North America's most significant political iconoclasts of the 1960s. -- Max Shulman TDR: The Drama Review Radical Theatrics is a thought-provoking book that should educate and trouble anyone desperate to change the world and confused about what to do when those efforts stall. -- Jeremy Varon Journal of American History

Craig J. Peariso’s work challenges traditional narratives regarding some of North America’s most significant political iconoclasts of the 1960s. -- Max Shulman * TDR: The Drama Review * Radical Theatrics is a thought-provoking book that should educate and trouble anyone desperate to change the world and confused about what to do when those efforts stall. -- Jeremy Varon * Journal of American History * This intriguing book presents a revisionist revaluation of the more problematic radical edges of political performance art in the United States of the mid-to-late 1960s. . . . Peariso has successfully shown that awkward decade was up for it in many compelling ways. . . . [Radical Theatrics] launches a sophisticatedly argued call for newly creating politico-aesthetic styles of ‘anti-representational’ performance. -- Baz Kershaw * Studies in Theatre and Performance * Peariso’s study of ‘failed’ sixties radicalism is an important contribution to our growing understanding of the complexities of radicalism in the postmodern, where performance is everywhere and manifold. -- Alan Filewod * Labour / Le Travail *

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Craig J. Peariso is assistant professor of art history at Boise State University.

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