The Applied Theatre Reader

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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: theatre in educational settings prison theatre community performance theatre in conflict resolution and reconciliation interventionist theatre theatre for development. This collection of critical thought and practice is essential to those studying or participating in the performing arts as a means for positive change. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Prologue Part 1 1. Applied Thetre: An Introduction Defining applied theatre A brief history of applied theatre The politics of applied theatre Bibliography Part 2: Poetics of representation 2. Introduction to Poetics of Representation 3. Rabelais and his World Notes 4. Brecht on Theatre Notes to the opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny Extracts from A Short Organum for the Theatre Appendices to the Short Organum Note 5. Clown, Opera, the Atomic Bomb and the Classroom The event The challenge Creating a working team The class Why clown Bibliography Notes 6. Provoking Intervention 7. ‘Lift Your Mask’: Geese Theatre Company in Performance Bibliography Notes 8. Doing Time: A personal and Practical Account of Making Performance Work in Prisons Doing time in the UK Doing time in Brazil Getting out Part 3 : Ethics of representation 9. Introduction to Ethics of Representation Bibliography Notes 10. Commentary on the War Plays Introduction Palermo improvisation Radical innocence We are sent to the theatre 11. On the Political Agonistic confrontation 12. Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness 13. Representing the Other Negotiating the problems of Othering Speaking only for ourselves Celebrating Otherness Destabilizing Otherness Interrupting Otherness Bibliography 14. ‘Fit for a Child?’: Artistry and Didacticism in a Theatre in Health Education Programme for Young Children The programme Out comes the learning . . . In comes the artistry Bibliography Notes 15. ‘You Just Made the Blueprint to Suit Yourselves’: A Theatre-Based Health Research Project in Lungwena, Malawi A theatre-based health research project in Lungwena Analysis of the theatre pilot research project in Lungwena Bibliography Notes 16. Bearing Witness: The Position of Theatre Makers in the Telling of Trauma Crocodile Seeking Refuge (2005) Woman in Waiting (2002) Bibliography Notes 17. The Ends of Applied Theatre: Incidents of Cutting and Chopping An international incident A showpiece Applied theatre as strategy or tactic? Bibliography Notes Part 4: Participation 18. Introduction to Participation Bibliography 19. Theatre of the Oppressed Experiments with the People’s Theater in Peru Third stage: the theater as language 20. Selections from the Prison Notebooks Notes 21. Participation Popular participation The pitfalls of empowerment Participation: boon, myth, or danger? Beyond participation Notes 22. Participation for Liberation or Incrimination? Ingando solidarity camp Grassroots theatre Gacaca courts Gacaca versus Truth and Reconciliation Commission Conclusion Bibliography Notes 23. Altogether Now?: Reconsidering the Merits of Participation in Child-Rights Theatre Bibliography Notes 24. The Complexity and Challenge of Participation: A Case Study of Collective Encounters’ Living Place Project Notes 25. The Use of Dialogical Approaches for Community Theatre by the Group Nós Do Morro, in the Vidigal Favela of Rio De Janeiro The Vidigal community The origins of Nós do Morro Nós do Morro as a Freirean perspective The distinctiveness of Nós do Morro approach Bibliography Notes Part 5: Intervention 26. Introduction to Intervention Bibliography 27. Profit Over People Neoliberalism and global order The Washington consensus The novelty of neoliberalism 28. When People Play People The efficacy of theatre in development communication Indispensability of mass media Assets and liabilities of different methods of theatre-for development Efficacy of popular and traditional media Intervention Domestication and other constraints Evaluation Bibliography 29. Drama as a Process for Change 30. Theatre as Communal Work: Intervention in Rural Communities Theatre in communities My work The concept of theatre as communal work The community The millennium play project Bibliography Notes 31. Made to Measure?: A critical Interrogation of Applied Theatre as Intervention with Young Offenders in the UK I II III Bibliography Notes 32. Flight Paths: Challenging Racism in Sunderland and Newcastle Preparing the ground The play The resource pack, training for teachers, workshops 2004 33. The Performance of Trauma The practical workshops Exploring autobiographical stories Performing traumatic autobiography Bibliography 34. Playback Theatre in Burundi: Can Theatre Transcend the Gap? The background Potential Problems and learnings Bibliography Notes Part 6: Border crossing 35. Introduction to Border Crossing Notes 36. Border Crossings The politics of voice and difference Resisting difference: towards a liberatory theory of border pedagogy Notes 37. Decolonising the Mind I II III IV V Notes 38. Re-Locating Memory: Performance, Reminiscence and Communities of Diaspora Embodiment and reminiscence theatre Memory and the performance of diaspora Encountering counter-memories Bibliography Notes 39. ‘Is This the Play?’: Applied Theatre Practice in a Pupil Referral Unit Contexts Practice: expectation and adaptation Adaptations Bibliography Notes 40. My People’s Blood: Mobilizing Rural Aboriginal Populations in Canada Around Issues of HIV Community: context Youth participants: context Turning point The topic Turning point Turning point: community mobilization The popular theatre process What helped? References 41. Transgressing Borders in Portland, Maine The border raids Cultural response The process The production Follow-up Bibliography Part 7: Transformation 42. Introduction to Transformation Bibliography Notes 43. Theatre Poems and Songs 44. Pedagogy of the Oppressed Note 45. Synthetic Culture and Development Reordering reality Standardization of culture Colonizing life experiences Means of social control Ideological dependence Standardization of consumption and culture Notes 46. Are we There Yet?: On the Road to Safer Sex Through Interactive Theatre Bibliography Notes 47. ‘The Mothership’: Sustainability and Transformation in the Work of Clean Break Prison theatre? An overview of Clean Break Education and training What works? Moving on References Notes 48. Who’s Got the Power?: Performance and Self Advocacy for People with Learning Disabilities, London How did we work as a group? The first production – Who Stole the Beautiful Octopus? The second production – Who’s Got the Power? Aftermath Bibliography Notes 49. Sanctions and Survival Politics: Zimbabwean Community Theater in a Time of Hardship Bibliography Notes 50. Child Rights Theatre for Development with Disadvantaged and Excluded Children in South Asia and Africa Bibliography Notes Part 8: Applied theatre and globalisation 51. Applied Theatre in a Global Village Bibliography Index