For Alain Badiou, theatre--unlike cinema--is the place for the staging of a truly emancipatory collective subject.
This definitive collection includes not only Badiou\'s pamphlet "Rhapsody for the Theatre" but also essays on Jean-Paul Sartre, on the political destiny of contemporary theatre, and on Badiou\'s own work as a playwright, as author of the Ahmed Tetralogy..
This explains why the history of Theatre has always been inseparable from a history of state repression and censorship.
In this sense Theatre is, of all the arts, the one strictly homologous to politics: both Theatre and politics depend on a limited set of texts or statements, collectively enacted by a group of actors or militants, which put a limit on the excessive power of the state.
For Alain Badiou, theatre--unlike cinema--is the place for the staging of a truly emancipatory collective subject
