Applied theatre : creative ageing / [edited by] Sheila McCormick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCormick, Sheila, editor, contributor.

Series:

Applied theatre (Series)

The Applied Theatre Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater and older people.

Older people--Recreation.

Older people.

Arts and older people.

Physical Description:

xiii, 258 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Applied theater

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017.

Summary:

Applied Theatre: Creative Ageing examines the complex social, political and cultural needs of a diverse group in our society and asks how contemporary applied theatre responds to those needs. For the first time, this publication allows an examination of innovative national and international practice in applied theatre that responds to the needs of older adults to encourage outcomes such as wellbeing and social inclusion. The volume does so while also questioning how we, as a society, wish to respond to the complex needs of older adults and the process of ageing and how applied theatre practices can help us do so in a way that is both positive and inclusive. In Part One Sheila McCormick reviews and historicises the practice of applied theatre with, for and by the elderly. It argues that pioneering applied theatre strategies are vital if the creative practice is to respond to the growing needs of older members of society, and reflects on particular cultural responses to ageing and the elderly.0The second part of the book is made up of essays and case studies from leading experts and practitioners from Britain, America and Australia, including consideration of applied theatre approaches to dementia, health, wellbeing, social inclusion and Alzheimer's disease.

Contents:

Introduction

Ageing, the individual and society / Sheila McCormick

Perspectives on Practice: Applied Theatre and Ageing / Sheila McCormick

Complicite and the clown: playful engagement and dementia / Michael Balfour, Julie Dunn, Wendy Moyle, Marie Cooke

The Care Home as a Creative Space / Jayne Lloyd and Helen Nicholson

A gentle inquiry into dark matter in arts-based research / Clive Parkinson

From Islands to Networks: Using Improvisation to Build Relationships Among Individuals and Systems / Anne Davis Basting

Interview with Mike Pearson

Community arts and creative well-being for dementia / Beth Luxmoore.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474233828

1474233821

9781474233835

147423383X

OCLC:

992119731

Publisher Number:

40027417135