Critical Perspectives on Applied Theatre

Table of Contents

1. Applied theatre: ecology of practices Jenny Hughes and Helen Nicholson
Part I. Histories and Cultural Memories:
2. Toward a historiography of the absent: on the late pasts of applied theatre and community performance Baz Kershaw
3. A pre-history of applied theatre: work, house, perform Jenny Hughes
4. Applied theatre and cultural memory in East and Southeast Asia Wan-Jung Wang
5. Dear Nise: method, madness and artistic occupation at a psychiatric hospital in Rio de Janeiro Paul Heritage and Silvia Ramos
Part II. Place, Community and Environment:
6. Performing location: place and applied theatre Sally Mackey
7. Peacebuilding performances in the aftermath of war: lessons From Bougainville Paul Dwyer
8. Applied theatre and climate change in Bangladesh: indigenous theatrics for Neoliberal theatricks Syed Jamil Ahmed
9. Applied theatre and disaster capitalism: resisting and rebuilding in Christchurch Peter O'Connor
Part III. Poetics and Participation:
10. Applied theatre and participation in the 'new' South Africa: a possible politics Mark Fleishman
11. Staging labour rights D. Soyini Madison
12. The micro-political and the socio-structural in applied theatre with homeless youth Kathleen Gallagher
13. A good day out: applied theatre, relationality and participation Helen Nicholson.

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