Applied theatre : facilitation : pedagogies, practices, resilience / Sheila Preston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Preston, Sheila, 1968- author.

Series:

Applied Theatre

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Study and teaching.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages).

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, [2016]

Summary:

Applied Theatre: Facilitation is the first publication that directly explores the facilitator's role within a range of socially engaged theatre and community theatre settings. The book offers a new theoretical framework for understanding critical facilitation in contemporary dilemmatic spaces and features a range of writings and provocations by international practitioners and experienced facilitators working in the field. Part One offers an introduction to the concept, role and practice of facilitation and its applications in different contexts and cultural locations. It offers a conceptual framework through which to understand the idea of critical facilitation: a political practice that that involves a critical (and self-critical) approach to pedagogies, practices (doing and performing), and resilience in dilemmatic spaces. Part Two illuminates the diversity in the field of facilitation in applied theatre through offering multiple voices, case studies, theoretical positions and contexts. These are drawn from Australia, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, India, Israel/Palestine, Rwanda, the United Kingdom and North America, and they apply a range of aesthetic forms: performance, process drama, forum, clowning and playmaking. Each chapter presents the challenge of facilitation in a range of cultural contexts with communities whose complex histories and experiences have led them to be disenfranchised socially, culturally and/or economically.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781472576958

1472576950

9781472576941

1472576942