Research Catalog

Title

Ethics / edited by Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta and Monica Prendergast ; series editor Michael Balfour.

Publication

London ; New York : Methuen Drama, 2022.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sadeghi-Yekta, Kirsten
• Prendergast, Monica
• Balfour, Michael, 1966-

Description

xv, 277 pages : illustrations (black and white); 22 cm.

Series Statement

Applied theatre

Uniform Title

Applied theatre (Series)

Subject

• Theater > Philosophy
• Theater and society
• Community theater

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

MWET 22-3852

ISBN

• 9781350161320
• 1350161322
• 9781350288706
• 1350288705

LCCN

• 2021033861
• 60002459422

OCLC

1264172554

Title

Ethics / edited by Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta and Monica Prendergast ; series editor Michael Balfour.

Publisher

London ; New York : Methuen Drama, 2022.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Applied theatre

Applied theatre (Series)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary

"This volume 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 effectively balance aesthetics and ethics in the process of creating performance, particularly with relatively inexperienced and often vulnerable groups of people who are being asked to both tell and stage their stories. While Part One offers an overview of critical debates and the editors' reflections on their own practice, 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. The two sections bring together both theoretical and practical ways for theatre-makers to examine the ethics of their applied theatre projects. In Part One, readers are presented with a critical introduction to ethics in applied theatre practice, informed by the thinking of philosophers, scholarly literature on applied theatre, and the editors' own experience, as they consider the question - What is the good? For practitioners working in the field of applied theatre, it provides recommendations for community-based ethical approaches working with principles of voice, agency, collaboration, relationality and reciprocity. Part Two presents a range of international case studies that consider ethics from varying critical perspectives and contexts, including projects in Australia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Covering work with participants of many ages, from children to seniors, the case studies include indigenous perspectives on a language revitalization project with the Hul'q'umi'num' people of British Columbia; the work of a professional dance theatre company working with addicts and people in recovery; interactive drama used in an educational context in Nigeria, and applied theatre projects in situations of trauma with refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos, among others"-- Provided by publisher.

Added Author

Sadeghi-Yekta, Kirsten, editor.

Prendergast, Monica, editor.

Balfour, Michael, 1966- other.

Other Form:

Online version: Applied theatre: ethics London ; New York : Methuen Drama 2022 9781350161337 (DLC) 2021033862

Other Standard Identifier

60002459422

Research Call Number

MWET 22-3852