Staging Social Justice: Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre

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Fringe Benefits, an award-winning theatre company, collaborates with schools and communities to create plays that promote constructive dialogue about diversity and discrimination issues.a"Staging Social Justice "is a groundbreaking collection of essays about Fringe BenefitsOCO script-devising methodology and their collaborations in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. The anthology also vividly describes the transformative impact of these creative initiatives on participants and audiences.a By reflecting on their experiences working on these projects, the contributing writersOCoartists, activists and scholarsOCoprovide the reader with tools and inspiration to create their own theatre for social change. a OC Contributors to this big-hearted collection share Fringe BenefitsOCO play devising process, and a compelling array of methods for measuring impact, approaches to aesthetics (with humor high on the list), coalition and community building, reflections on safe space, and acknowledgement of the diverse roles needed to apply theatre to social justice goals. The book beautifully bears witness to both how generative Fringe BenefitsOCO collaborations have been for participants and to the potential of engaged art in multidisciplinary ecosystems more broadly.OCOOCoJan Cohen-Cruz, editor of "Public: A Journal of Imagining America"