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| Author | : Jenny Hughes |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2016-04-14 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1107065046 |
This collection offers fresh perspectives on the aesthetics, politics and histories of applied theatre in a range of global contexts.
| Author | : Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2022-01-27 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1350161349 |
Applied Theatre: Ethics explores what it means for applied theatre practice to be conducted in an ethical way and examines how this affects the work done with communities and participants. It considers how practitioners can balance aesthetics and ethics when creating performance, particularly with relatively inexperienced and often vulnerable groups of people who are being asked to both tell and stage their stories. The two sections bring together theoretical and practical ways for theatre-makers to examine the ethics of their applied theatre projects. Part One offers an overview of critical debates and the editors' reflections on their own practice. It introduces readers to ethics in applied theatre, informed by the thinking of philosophers, scholarly literature and the editors' own experience, including Indigenous perspectives on ethics and theatre. For applied theatre practitioners, it provides recommendations for community-based ethical approaches working with principles of voice, agency, care, service, collaboration, presence, relationality and reciprocity. Part Two presents a range of international case studies that explore how the theories and issues are worked out in a variety of diverse practices. It considers ethics from varying critical perspectives and contexts, including projects in Greece, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Philippines and Canada. Covering work with participants of many ages, the case studies include the work of a professional dance theatre company working with people in substance abuse recovery in the UK, interactive drama used in an educational context in Nigeria, and the complexities around an applied theatre project on race in the US.
| Author | : James Thompson |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Children's theater |
| ISBN | : 9780820462905 |
Often operating outside the bounds of theater buildings, applied theater involves the practice of theater in communities, social institutions, and with marginalized groups. In this study, Thompson (drama, Manchester U., UK) examines various programs (mainly in prisons and development settings) to assess the claims that applied theater can bring a
| Author | : Tim Prentki |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2015-02-26 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1472505182 |
At once both guide book and provocation, this is an indispensable companion for students and practitioners of applied theatre. It addresses all key aspects: principles, origins, politics and aesthetics in a concise and accessible style designed to appeal both to those who have recently discovered this sub-discipline and to experienced practitioners and academics. Part 1 is divided into two chapters. The first introduces the sub-discipline of Theatre for Development, covering its origins, principles and history, and providing an overview of theatre for development in Western contexts as well as in Africa, Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and Latin America. The second focuses upon theoretical and philosophical issues confronting the discipline and its relationship to contemporary politics, as well as considering its future role. Part 2 consists of seven chapters contributed by leading figures and current practitioners from around the world and covering a diverse range of themes, methodologies and aesthetic approaches. One chapter offers a series of case studies concerned with sexual health education and HIV prevention, drawn from practitioners working in Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Southern Africa, and China. Other chapters include studies of intercultural theatre in the Peruvian Amazon; a programme of applied theatre conducted in schools in Canterbury, New Zealand, following the 2010 earthquake; an attempt to reinvigorate a community theatre group in South Brazil; and an exchange between a Guatemalan arts collective and a Dutch youth theatre company, besides others.
| Author | : Jenny Hughes |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 381 |
| Release | : 2020-06-09 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0429753934 |
Precariousness and the Performances of Welfare brings together an international group of artists, activists and scholars to explore precarity in the contexts of applied and socially engaged theatre. The policy of austerity pursued by governments across the global North following the financial crisis of 2008 has renewed interest in issues of poverty, economic inequality and social justice. Emerging from European contexts of activism and scholarship, ‘precarity’ has become a shorthand term for the permanently insecure conditions of life under neoliberal capitalism and its associated stripping back of social welfare protections. This collection explores a range of theatre practice, including activist theatres, theatre and health projects, the community work of regional theatres, arts-led social care initiatives, people’s theatres and youth arts programmes. Comprising full-length chapters and shorter pieces, the collection offers new perspectives on social theatre projects as creative occasions of occupation that generate a sense of security in a precarious world. This book was originally published as a special issue of RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.
| Author | : Helen Nicholson |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2014-07-14 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1137111291 |
This core text offers insight into theatre-making that takes place in communities across the world. Offering an overview of the theory that underpins practice in applied drama, this thought-provoking text outlines practices in the context of contemporary political and theoretical concerns. It considers the role of artists who work in challenging settings, including prisons, schools, hostels for the homeless, care homes for the elderly and on the street. In so doing, the book poses critical questions about the aesthetics and ethics of applied theatre. It also invites debate about the environments in which applied theatre takes place. Written by an experienced academic in the field, this lively text is the ideal introductory text for students on Applied Theatre degree programmes and those taking Applied Theatre modules on Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies programmes. It is also essential reading for practitioners of applied theatre looking for a comprehensive insight into theatre-making and its impact in an increasingly globalized world.
| Author | : Peter O'Connor |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2015-02-26 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 147250951X |
Applied Theatre: Research is the first book to consolidate thinking about applied theatre as research through a thorough investigation of ATAR as a research methodology. It will be an indispensable resource for teachers and researchers in the area. The first section of the book details the history of the relationship between applied theatre and research, especially in the area of evaluation and impact assessment, and offering an examination of the literature surrounding applied theatre and research. The book then explores how applied theatre as research (ATAR) works as a democratic and pro-social adjunct to community based research and explains its complex relationship to arts informed inquiry, Indigenous research methods and other research epistemologies. The book provides a rationale for this approach focusing on its capacity for reciprocity within communities. The second part of the book provides a series of international case studies of effective practice which detail some of the key approaches in the method and based on work conducted in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the South Pacific. The case studies provide a range of cultural contexts for the playing out of various forms of ATAR, and a concluding chapter considers the tensions and the possibilities inherent in ATAR. This is a groundbreaking book for all researchers who are working with communities who require a method that moves beyond current research practice.
| Author | : Kelly Freebody |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2015-08-20 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1317628772 |
"This text offers a cohesive framework for exploring social justice through drama and drama from a social justice perspective. Research based examples of practice from a range of international contexts link theory and practice. Connecting chapters raise key critical questions in an engaging dialogue format. An important addition to the literature on social justice education." - Lee Anne Bell, author Storytelling for Social Justice (2010) and co-editor of Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice (Routledge, 2007) Much has been written within the tradition of drama education and applied theatre around the premise that drama can be a force for change within both individual lives and society more broadly. However, little has been published in terms of charting the nature of this relationship. By combining theoretical, historical and practical perspectives, this book unpacks and explores drama’s intrinsically entwined relationship with society more comprehensively and critically. Chapters gather together and develop a range of theoretical understandings of social justice in applied drama in the first part of the book, which are then used to frame and inform more focused discussions of drama research and practice in the second. Contributors move beyond practical understandings of drama for empowerment or development in order to engage with the philosophy of praxis – the interconnected and symbiotic nature of theory derived from practice, and practice derived from theory. Including concrete examples from current research and practice in the field, the book opens up a conversation on and counter-narrative to perceptions of the nature and impact of applied theatre and drama education on social justice. Drama and Social Justice will be key reading for postgraduate students, academics, researchers and field-based practitioners in the areas of applied drama and theatre, education and youth work, and social justice and the social sciences.
| Author | : Tim Prentki |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : PERFORMING ARTS |
| ISBN | : 9780367376291 |
Applied theatre : an introduction / Nicola Abraham -- Lexicon of key concepts / Nicola Abraham and Tim Prentki -- Introduction to poetics of representation / Tim Prentki -- Rabelais and his world / Mikhail Bakhtin -- Brecht on theatre / Marc Silberman, Steve Giles and Tom Kuhn (eds.) -- Laughing and yelling in the trouble : spaces of consensual courage / Sonia Norris and Julie Salverson -- Provoking intervention : spaces of consensual courage / Adrian Jackson -- 'Lift your mask' : geese theatre company in performance / Andy Watson -- Geographies of hope / Michael Balfour and Julie Dunn -- Culturally producing and negotiating women's rugby / Colette Conroy and Sarah Dickinson -- Introduction to ethics of representation / Nicola Abraham -- The work of representation / Stuart Hall -- On the political / Chantal Mouffe -- Choosing the margin as a space of radical openness / bell hooks -- Drama for moral education in mainland China : tensions and possibilities / Joe Winston and Chenchen Zeng -- 'I never knew I had so many health rights' - developing a health manifesto with young people living in Hillbrow / Katharine Low, Gerard Bester, Phana Dube and Ben Gunn -- Inside bitch : clean break and the ethics of representation of women in the criminal justice system / Anna Herrmann and Caoimhe McAvinchey with contributions from Lucy Edkins, Jennifer Joseph, TerriAnn Oudjar, Jade Small, Deborah Pearson and Stacey Gregg -- The ethics of aesthetic risk / Gareth White -- Transition and challenge ethical concerns in prison theatre / Marianne Knudsen and Bjørn Rasmussen -- Theare for democracy / Brendon Burns -- Introduction to participation and inclusion / Nicola Abraham -- Theatre of the oppressed / Augusto Boal -- Selections from the prison notebooks / Antonio Gramsci -- Participation / Majid Rahnema -- On arrival / Sara Ahmed -- Mobile arts for peace (MAP) : curriculum for music, dance and drama in Rwanda / Ananda Breed, Kurtis Dennison, Sylvestre Nzahabwanayo, and Kirrily Pells -- Lest all things be held unalterable : Brecht's message to 'zombie democracies' / Marina Henriques Coutinho -- Being imperfect : breakin' away from competitive battling in Singapore / Adelina Ong -- The gratitude enquiry : investigating reciprocity in three community projects / Sue Mayo -- Introduction to intervention / Tim Prentki -- Profit over people / Noam Chomsky -- When people play people / Zakes Mda -- Drama as a process for change / Dorothy Heathcote -- Prospero.digital / Paul Sutton -- Unexpected resilience of the participant performance model for playback theatre / Jonathan Fox -- Introduction to border crossing / Tim Prentki -- Border crossings / Henry Giroux -- Decolonising the mind / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o -- Home, away, and back again / Jan Cohen Cruz -- Brecht in Sicily : crossing borders / Salvo Pitruzzella -- The transacting project / Catherine McNamara -- Introduction to change / Nicola Abraham -- Problem-posing situated and multicultural learning / Ira Shor -- Synthetic culture and development / Renato Constantino -- Child rights theatre for development with disadvantaged and excluded children in South Asia and Africa / Michael Etherton -- Opening doors, not filling boxes : policy kinesis and youth performance with the Black Friars Theatre Company, Aotearoa, New Zealand / Nicola Abraham and Cristian Almarza -- Educaswitch : preventing bullying and advocating social and emotional literacy in schools for children and young people in Chile / Nicola Abraham and Cristian Almarza -- Planting dream-seeds in the wind when the point is to change / Syed Jamil Ahmed -- Applied theatre in global meltdown / Tim Prentki.
| Author | : Kelly Freebody |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 187 |
| Release | : 2018-06-26 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 3319781782 |
This volume offers researchers and practitioners new perspectives on applied theatre work, exploring the relationship between applied theatre and its intent, success and value. Applied theatre is a well-established field focused on the social application of the arts in a range of contexts including schools, prisons, residential aged care and community settings. The increased uptake of applied theatre in these contexts requires increased analysis and understanding of indications of success and value. This volume provides critical commentary and questions regarding issues associated with developing, delivering and evaluating applied theatre programs. Part 1 of the volume presents a discussion of the ways the concept of change is presented to and by funding bodies, practitioners, participants, researchers and policy makers to discover and analyse the relationships between applied theatre practice, transformative intent, and evaluation. Part 2 of the volume offers perspectives from key authors in the field which extend and contextualize the discussion by examining key themes and practice-based examples.
