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The Applied Theatre Reader

Edited by Tim Prentki, Sheila Preston

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About the Book

The Applied Theatre Reader is the first book to bring together new case studies of practice by leading practitioners and academics in the field and beyond, with classic source texts from writers such as Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, Mikhail Bakhtin, Augusto Boal, and Chantal Mouffe.

This book divides the field into key themes, inviting critical interrogation of issues in applied theatre whilst also acknowledging the multi-disciplinary nature of its subject.

It crosses fields such as:

This collection of critical thought and practice is essential to those studying or participating in the performing arts as a means for positive change.

Table of Contents

Note on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Prologue: Mistero Buffo Dario Fo

Part 1

  1. Applied Theatre: An Introduction Tim Prentki and Sheila Preston

    2. Part 2: Poetics of Representation

  2. Introduction to Poetics of Representation Tim Prentki

  3. Rabelais and His World Mikhail Bakhtin

  4. Brecht on Theatre John Willett (ed.)

  5. Clown, Opera, the Atomic Bomb, and the Classroom Julie Salverson

  6. Provoking the Intervention Adrian Jackson

  7. ‘Life Your Mask’: Geese Theatre Company in Performance Andy Watson

  8. Doing Time: A Personal and Practical Account of Making Performance Work in Prisons Lois Weaver

    9. Part 3: Ethics of Representation

  9. Introduction to Ethics of Representation Sheila Preston

  10. Commentary on the War Plays Edward Bond

  11. On the Political Chantal Mouffe

  12. Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness bell hooks

  13. Representing the Other Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger

  14. ‘Fit for a Child?’ Artistry and Didacticism in a Theatre in Health Education Programme for Young Children Joe Winston

  15. ‘You Just Made the Blueprint to Suit Yourselves’: A Theatre-Based Health Research Project in Lungwena, Malawi David Kerr

  16. Bearing Witness: The Position of Theatre Makers in the Telling of Trauma Amanda Stuart Fisher

  17. The Ends of Applied Theatre: Incidents of Cutting and Chopping James Thompson

    18. Part 4: Participation

  18. Introduction to Participation Sheila Preston

  19. Theatre of the Oppressed Augusto Boal

  20. Selections from the Prison Notebooks Antonio Gramsci

  21. Participation Majid Rahnema

  22. Participation for Liberation of Incrimination? Ananda Breed

  23. Altogether Now? Reconsidering the Merits of Participation of Child-Rights Theatre Paul Moclair

  24. The Complexity and Challenge of Participation: A Case Study of Collective Encounters’ Living Place Project Sarah Thornton

  25. The Use of Dialogical Approaches for Community Theatre by the Group Nós do Morro, in the Vidigal Favela of Rio de Janeiro Marina Henriques Coutinho and Marcia Pompeo Nogueira

    26. Part 5: Intervention

  26. Introduction to Intervention Tim Prentki

  27. Profit Over People Noam Chomsky

  28. When People Play People Zakes Mda

  29. Drama as a Process for Change Dorothy Heathcote

  30. Theatre as Communal Work: Intervention in Rural Communities John Somers

  31. Made to Measure? A Critical Interrogation of Applied Theatre as Intervention with Young Offenders in the UK Jenny Hughes and Simon Ruding

  32. Flight Paths: Challenging Racism in Sunderland and Newcastle Kathleen McCreery

  33. The Performance of Trauma Penny Bundy

  34. Playback Theatre in Burundi: Can Theatre Transcend the Gap? Jonathan Fox

    35. Part 6: Border Crossing

  35. Introduction to Border Crossing Tim Prentki

  36. Border Crossings Henry Giroux

  37. Decolonising the Mind Ngugi wa Thiong’o

  38. Re-locating Memory: Performance, Reminiscence and Communities of Diaspora Helen Nicholson

  39. ‘Is this the Play?’ Applied Theatre Practice in a Pupil Referral Unit Caoimhe McAvinchey

  40. My People’s Blood: Mobilizing Rural Aboriginal Populations in Canada around Issues of HIV Josie Auger and Jane Heather

  41. Transgressing Borders in Portland, Maine Jan Cohen-Cruz

    42. Part 7: Transformation

  42. Introduction to Transformation Sheila Preston

  43. Theatre Poems and Songs Edward Bond

  44. Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paulo Freire

  45. Synthetic Culture and Development Renato Constantino

  46. Are We There Yet? On the Road to Safer Sex Through Interactive Theatre Jan Selman with Shaniff Esmail, Brenda Munro and Jim Ponzetti

  47. ‘The Mothership’: Sustainability and Transformation in the Work of Clean Break Anna Herrmann

  48. Who’s Got the Power? Performance and Self Advocacy for People with Learning Disabilities Liselle Terret

  49. Sanctions and Survival Politics: Zimbabwean Community Theater in a Time of Hardship L. Dale Byam

  50. Child Rights Theatre for Development with Disadvantaged and Excluded Children in South Asia and Africa Michael Etherton

    51. Part 8: Applied Theatre and Globalisation

  51. Applied Theatre in a Global Village Tim Prentki

Index

About the Author(s)

Tim Prentki is Professor of Theatre for Development at the University of Winchester where he runs the MA in Theatre and Media for Development. He is co-author of Popular Theatre in Political Culture and is on the editorial board of Research in Drama Education.


Sheila Preston is a senior lecturer in Applied Theatre at the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. Her research interests are: theatre for development, the facilitator and critical pedagogies, and theatre/performance for social change.

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