This core text offers insight into theatre-making that takes place in communities across the
world. Offering an overview of the theory that underpins practice in applied drama, this …

There are few things in the theatre that are more despised than audience participation. The
prospect of audience participation makes people fearful; the use of audience participation …

Performance Affects explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that
joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or …

Applied Theatre was the first collection to assist practitioners and students in developing
critical frameworks for their own community-based theatrical projects. The editors draw on …

Erika Fischer-Lichte's introduction to the discipline of Theatre and Performance Studies is a
strikingly authoritative and wide ranging guide to the study of theatre in all of its forms. Its …

Engaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response presents a combined analysis and
workbook to examine" socially engaged performance." It offers a range of key practical …

Despite the ubiquity of theatre projects in prisons there has been little (published) discussion
of the application of theatre to the theories of criminology or rehabilitation of offenders, and …

Building on Robert J. Landy's seminal text, Handbook of Educational Drama and Theatre,
Landy and Montgomery revisit this richly diverse and ever-changing field, identifying some …

This book draws upon cognitive and affect theory to examine applications of contemporary
performance practices in educational, social and community contexts. The writing is situated …

Theatre of Good Intentions examines limitations of theatre in the creation of social and
political change. This book looks at some of the reasons why achieving such goals is hard; …