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Abstract
In Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal famously claims that theatre-though "not revolutionary in itself "-"is a rehearsal of revolution!" (155).While not always taken to this extreme, many scholars and theatremakers-such as Jill Dolan and Baz Kershawbelieve that theatre can act as a rehearsal for political action.As Dolan puts it, theatre is a space to "critically rehearse civic engagement" (7).Though the generative capacity of this impulse has been challenged-notably by Dani Snyder-Young in Theatre of Good Intentions-the concept that theatre allows us to build repertoires of resistance and collectivity remains popular.In the recent collection In Defence of Theatre-reviewed in this section by Alan Filewod-Aaron Willis passionately proclaims that "Theatre should reflect back to us what humans are capable of, help us ask ourselves how we ought to live" (211) and Barry Freeman notes theatre "can model new ways of living and relating to one another" ( 22).Yet, taken literally, the notion of theatre as a space of civic rehearsal can be dangerous.On 16 June 2017, Laura Loomer, a reporter from The Rebel media-run by former Sun News Network host Ezra Levant-stormed the stage of The Public Theatre's production of Julius Caesar in New York's Central Park.Like many on the right, Loomer was appalled that the production's Julius Caesar character was a clear invocation of Donald Trump and-focusing solely on the first half of Shakespeare's text-read Caesar's assassination scene as an irreverent and literal call to assassinate the President of the United States.Reactions to Loomer's actions-and the right's ongoing attacks on the Public-were swift and vocal, particularly on Twitter.My own Twitter feed teemed with theatremakers and critics proudly proclaiming their support for the Public with hashtags like #WeAreOnePublic and #FreeShakespeare.Amidst this fervour, the voice of one performance-maker stood out.On 22 June 2017, SpiderWebShow's Artistic Director Michael Wheeler tweeted "I'm annoyed Public Theatre Caesar has reinforced notion [sic] presenting Shakespeare in a park is a revolutionary act of social justice."While definitely not supporting Loomer, Wheeler suggests that the Public's defenders also misread the social function of that institutional space.Turning back to the concept of theatre as civic rehearsal, Wheeler's analysis challenges broad proclamations Views and Reviews
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.028 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.015 | 0.020 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.067 | 0.027 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".