Radical initiatives in interventionist and community drama / edited by Peter Billingham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Billingham, Peter, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater and society.

Theater--History.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (138 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR, USA : Intellect, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This new series of cutting edge critical essays and articles in issues concerning Drama and Performance opens with Volume I, which will focus on issues of Interventionist Drama and related examples of Drama as Community. The list of contributors is impressive and quite consciously eclectic, ranging from established scholars such as Dr. Lionel Pilkington (University of Galway) through to the latest talent emerging in the field of theatre research such as Bill McDonnell (University of Sheffield) and Maureen Barry (Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds.) There is also a significant internatio

Contents:

Introduction: on interventionist and community theatre / John Bull

A good night out on the Fells Road: liberation theatre and the nationalist struggle in Belfast, 1984-1990 / Bill McDonnell

Crossing boundaries and struggling for language: using drama with women as a means of addressing psycho-social cultural issues in a multi-cultural context in contemporary Copenhagen / Carole Angela Christensen

Taking liberties / Gunduz Kalic

Parachuting in: issues arising from drama as intervention within communities in Azerbaijan / Velda Harris

Bordering utopia: dissident community theatre n Sheffield / John Salway.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610476671

9781280476679

1280476672

9781841509112

1841509116

OCLC:

241061948