Critical perspectives on applied theatre / edited by Jenny Hughes and Helen Nicholson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hughes, Jenny, 1971- editor.

Nicholson, Helen, 1958- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater and society.

Community theater.

Physical Description:

xiv, 278 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Contents:

Applied theatre: ecology of practice / Jenny Hughes and Helen Nicholson

Histories and cultural memories. Toward a historiography of the absent: on the late pasts of applied theatre and community performance / Baz Kershaw

A pre-history of applied theatre: work, house, perform / Jenny Hughes

Applied theatre and cultural memory in East and Southeast Asia / Wan-jung Wang

Dear nise: method, madness and artistic occupation at a psychiatric hospital in Rio de Janeiro / Paul Heritage and Silvia Ramos

Place, community and environment. Performing location: place and applied theatre / Sally Mackey

Peacebuilding performances in the aftermath of war: lessons from Bougainville / Paul Dwyer

Applied theatre and climate change in Bangladesh: indigenous theatrics for neoliberal theatricks / Syed Jamil Ahmed

Applied theatre and disaster capitalism: resisting and rebuilding in Christchurch / Peter O'Connor

Poetics and participation. Applied theatre and participation in the 'new' South Africa: a possible politics / Mark Fleishman

Staging labour rights / Soyini Madison

The micro-political and the socio-structural in applied theatre with homeless youth / Kathleen Gallagher

A good day out: applied theatre, relationality and participation / Helen Nicholson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107065048

1107065046

9781107642287

1107642280

OCLC:

931035772