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Can we create a populist theatre that can help audiences to, as folklorist Maribel Álvarez describes, shatter historical myths and imagine ourselves as a unity? What would it take to do so?
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Haft, J. (2018). Creating a Populist Theatre. In: Etheridge Woodson, S., Underiner, T. (eds) Theatre, Performance and Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65828-5_13
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