Theatre and empowerment : community drama on the world stage / edited by Richard Boon and Jane Plastow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boon, Richard, editor.

Plastow, Jane, editor.

Series:

Cambridge studies in modern theatre.

Cambridge studies in modern theatre

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 267 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Theatre & Empowerment

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Theatre and Empowerment examines the ability of drama, theatre, dance and performance to empower communities of very different kinds, and it does so from a multi-cultural perspective. The communities involved include poverty-stricken children in Ethiopia and the Indian sub-continent, disenfranchised Native Americans in the USA and young black men in Britain, victims of violence in South Africa and Northern Ireland, and a threatened agricultural town in Italy. The book asserts the value of performance as a vital agent of necessary social change, and makes its arguments through the close examination, from 'inside' practice, of the success - not always complete - of specific projects in their practical and cultural contexts. Practitioners and commentators ask how performance in its widest sense can play a part in community activism on a scale larger than the individual, 'one-off' project by helping communities find their own liberating and creative voices.

Contents:

The wedding community play project : a cross-community production in Northern Ireland / Gerri Moriarty

The poor theatre of Monticchiello, Italy / Richard Andrews

'What happened to you today that reminded you that you are a black man?' The process of exploring black masculinities in performance, Great Britain / Michael Macmillan

Wielding the cultural weapon after apartheid : Bongani Linda's Victory Sonqoba Theatre Company, South Africa / Stepanie Marlin-Curiel

Dance and transformation : the Adugna Community Dance Theatre, Ethiopia / Jane Plastow

The Day of Mourning/Pilgrim Progress in Plymouth, USA. Contesting processions : a report on performance, personification and empowerment / Ricardo Villanueva

South Asia's Child Rights Theatre for Development : the empowerment of children who are marginalised, disadvantaged and excluded / Michael Etherton

Theatre

a space for empowerment : celebrating Jana Sanskriti's experience in India / Sanjoy Ganguly.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780511209192

0511209193

9781107144934

1107144930

9781280540370

1280540370

9780511214561

0511214561

9780511216350

0511216351

9780511210983

0511210981

9780511331497

0511331495

9780511486166

0511486162

9780511212758

0511212755

OCLC:

560251524

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07687 hdl