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Moving Targets: Political Theatre in a Post-Political Age (review)

The essential question posed in Ryan Reynolds’s stimulating book Moving Targets: Political Theatre in a Post-political Age is existential: “Is there such a thing as political performance in the post-political age?” Reynolds, an American scholar and theatre artist working in New Zealand, wonders at the utter lack of belief in alternative social structures in our current moment. He writes, with some disappointment, that the grand ideas of the past have been subsumed into the market of late-stage capitalism. Using the postmodern theories of Baudrillard and Jameson as his lens, Reynolds views late-stage capitalism as a “moving target” in the crosshairs of political theatre, which itself must remain a moving target so as to avoid commodification by, and absorption into, the market of late capitalist exchange.