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Title

The applied theatre reader / edited by Tim Prentki and Sheila Preston.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Prentki, Tim
• Preston, Sheila, 1968-

Description

xvi, 380 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• Theater and society
• Community theater

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Mistero Burro / Dario Fo -- Applied theatre : an introduction / Tim Prentki and Sheila Preston -- Poetics of representation. Introduction to poetics of representation / Tim Prentki ; Rabelais and his world / Mikhail Bakhtin ; Brecht on theatre / John Willett (ed.) ; Clown, opera, the atomic bomb and the classroom / Julie Salverson ; Provoking intervention / Adrian Jackson ; "Lift your mask" : Geese Theatre Company in performance / Andy Watson ; Doing time : a personal and practical account of making performance work in prisons / Lois Weaver -- Ethics of representation. Introduction to ethics of representation / Sheila Preston ; Commentary on The war plays / Edward Bond ; On the political / Chantal Mouffe ; Choosing the margin as a space of radical openness / bell hooks ; Representing the other / Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger ; "Fit for a child?" artistry and didacticism in a theatre in health education programme for young children / Joe Winston ; "You just made the blueprint to suit yourselves" : a theatre-based health research project in Lungwena, Malawi / David Kerr ; Bearing witness : the position of theatre makers in the telling of trauma / Amanda Stuart Fisher ; The ends of applied theatre : incidents of cutting and chopping / James Thompson -- Participation. Introduction to participation / Sheila Preston ; Theatre of the oppressed / Augusto Boal ; Selections from the prison notebooks / Antonio Gramsci ; Participation / Majid Rahnema ; Participation for liberation or incrimination? / Ananda Breed ; Altogether now? Reconsidering the merits of participation in child-rights theatre / Paul Moclair ; The complexity and challenge of participation : a case study of Collective Encounters' Living Place Project / Sarah Thornton ; 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 -- Intervention. Introduction to intervention / Tim Prentki ; Profit over people / Noam Chomsky ; When people play people / Zakes Mda ; Drama as a process for change / Dorothy Heathcote ; Theatre as communal work : intervention in rural communities / John Somers ; Made to measure? A critical interrogation of applied theatre as intervention with young offenders in the UK / Jenny Hughes with Simon Ruding ; Flight paths : challenging racism in Sunderland and Newcastle / Kathleen McCreery ; The performance of trauma / Penny Bundy ; Playback theatre in Burundi : can theatre transcend the gap? / Jonathan Fox -- Border crossing. Introduction to border crossing / Tim Prentki ; Border crossings / Henry Giroux ; Decolonising the mind / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o ; Re-locating memory : performance, reminiscence and communities of diaspora / Helen Nicholson ; "Is this the play?" Applied theatre practice in a pupil referral unit / Caoimhe McAvinchey ; My people's blood : mobilizing rural aboriginal populations in Canada around issues if HIV / Josie Auger and Jane Heather ; Transgressing borders in Portland, Maine / Jan Cohen-Cruz -- Transformation. Introduction to transformation / Sheila Preston ; Theatre poems and songs / Edward Bond ; Pedagogy of the oppressed / Paulo Freire ; Synthetic culture and development / Renato Constantino ; Are we there yet? On the road to safer sex through interactive theatre / Jan Selman with Shaniff Esmail, Brenda Munro and Jim Ponzetti ; "The mothership" : sustainability and transformation in the work of clean break / Anna Herrmann ; Who's got the power? Performance and self advocacy for people with learning disabilities / Liselle Terret ; Sanctions and survival politics : Zimbabwean community theatre in a time of hardship / L. Dale Byam ; Child rights theatre for development with disadvantaged and excluded children in South Asia and Africa / Michael Etherton -- Applied theatre and globalisation. Applied theatre in a global village / Tim Prentki.

Call Number

MWET 18-2698

ISBN

• 9780415428866
• 0415428866
• 9780415428873
• 0415428874

LCCN

2008005774

OCLC

192042277

Title

The applied theatre reader / edited by Tim Prentki and Sheila Preston.

Imprint

New York : Routledge, 2009.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary

'Applied theatre' refers to theatre that happens outside of the artistic/theatrical setting, often in a community or educational context, mostly in the service of some kind of social change. This reader brings together classic texts on the subject, written by Chomsky, Bakhtin, Boal, and other notables.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Prentki, Tim.

Preston, Sheila, 1968-

Other Form:

Online version: Applied theatre reader. London ; New York : Routledge, 2009 (OCoLC)681504617

Research Call Number

MWET 18-2698