Staging social justice : collaborating to create activist theatre / edited by Norma Bowles and Daniel-Raymond Nadon ; with a foreword by Bill Rauch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowles, Norma, 1961-

Nadon, Daniel-Raymond, 1960-

Series:

Theater in the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater and society.

Theater--Political aspects.

Theater.

Community theater--Social aspects.

Community theater.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fringe Benefits, an award-winning theatre company, collaborates with schools and communities to create plays that promote constructive dialogue about diversity and discrimination issues. Staging Social Justice is a groundbreaking collection of essays about Fringe Benefits' script-devising methodology and their collaborations in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. The anthology also vividly describes the transformative impact of these creative initiatives on participants and audiences.

Contents:

Introduction / Norma Bowles

Devising Text: Collaborative Decision Making. Teaching without Lecturing: A Lesson in (Re)Writing History / Flint

Brief Encounters between Disciplines and Cultures: An Analysis of the Dramaturgical Quilting Bee / Carly Halse

Are You an Inmate? Collective Decision Making in the Development of If Yes, Please Explain / Megan Hanley

Writing Conflict Out of Schools / Cristina Pippa

Marketing the Revolution: Aesthetics and Impact of Activist Theatre. moving beyond the Comfort Zone: The Quest for TSJ Impact / David Kaye

Measuring the Impact of Theatre for Social Justice / Susan V. Iverson

Sympathy vs. stigma: writing the "victim" / Daniel-Raymond Nadon

Do Not Try This at Home / Michael Ellison

A Few More Thoughts about Aesthetics / Norma Bowles

Coalition and Community Building: Reaching Beyond the Choir. Creating Space for Intergenerational LGBT Community and Movement Building / Diane Finnerty

What Comes Next? A Guide to Organizing, Activating, and Rallying the College Campus / Lindsey Barlag Thornton and Amanda Jane Acevedo

Rehearsing for Dialogue: Facilitation Training and Miami University's A More Perfect Union / Ann Elizabeth Armstrong

Pushing without Shoving: Ethics of and Emphasis on Target Participation in TSJ Institutes / Bryan C. Moore

We Are Who We Are: Theatre to Confront Homophobia and Transform Education into Social Praxis / Tracey Calhoun

Creating a Safe Space and a Great Show. Safe to Say / Bernardo Solano and Paula Weston Solano

Pronouns, Play Building, and the Principal: Negotiating Multiple Sites of Activism in a Youth-Focused Theatre for Social Justice Project / Xanthia Angel Walker

Creativity or Carnage: An International Theatre for Social Justice Project / Selina Busby and Catherine McNamara

Adapt the Space! Working with People of Diverse Abilities / Kathleen Juhl and Lindsey Smith

The Many Players: Perspectives on Diverse Project Roles and Responsibilities. Ripples over the Great Barrier / Rod Ainsworth and Jude Pippen

Voicing Your Gender, Gendering Your Voice / Rebecca Root

Psychological Reflections on an LGBTQI Theatre for Social Justice Project / Erasmo Tacconelli

Forum Theatre and the Power of "Yes, and-" / Jessy Ardern

By Hook or by Crook! Luring the Oppressor into the Lair[0] / Daniel-Raymond Nadon

A Transformational? and Empowering? Experience. The Wizdom of Us: Reconsidering Identities and Affinities through Theatre for Social Justice / Brooke Kiener

Wade in the Water / Laura Reed Goodson

True-to-the-Course: The Learning Curve of a New Teaching Artist / Natalya Brusilovsky

Bricks & Stones: Bashing Back with a Fistful of Words / Crystal Grills with Flint

A Few More Thoughts about Transformation / Norma Bowles.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8093-3239-6

OCLC:

849246179