Contaminating theatre : intersections of theatre, therapy, and public health / edited by Jill Mac Dougall and P. Stanley Yoder.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mac Dougall, Jill R., 1942-

Yoder, P. Stanley.

Series:

Psychosocial issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama in health education.

Drama--Therapeutic use.

Drama.

Physical Description:

vi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, [1998]

Summary:

Speaking from a breadth of disciplines, themes, and cultural perspectives, the eight essays in this collection offer a wide-ranging view on the ways theatre can be employed in the service of public health.

The book begins with a look at the projects of two activist theatre companies: the Theatre Parminou of Quebec's intervention play on domestic violence and the San Francisco Mime Troupe's deconstruction of the tobacco industry's manipulation of teenagers. The next two essays analyze a "theatre for survival", where interventions and productions dealing with AIDS and peer violence are performed for and by New York inner-city youth, and a radio sitcom/soap opera devised to raise AIDS awareness in the Copper Belt region of Zambia. Other essays highlight a therapist producing theatre with his patients and an acting coach involved in training family therapists. Through examples drawn from university teaching and field work ranging from "invisible theatre" in a California shopping mall to an intervention piece on childhood malnutrition in the former Zaire, the final essays take an in-depth look at the issues and methods driving a theatre which seeks to contaminate in order to produce a healthy change.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0810115344

0810115352

OCLC:

38964040