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Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface: What Is This Book About?

Part One: Theories, History and Practices of Applied Theatre

Chapter One: Theories and History of Applied Theatre

1.1 Where Do We Find Applied Theatre?

1.2 What Is Applied Theatre?

1.3 Why Applied Theatre? How Did It Emerge?

1.4 What Is the Purpose of Applied Theatre?

Summary

Further Reading

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Suggested Activities

Chapter Two: Practices of Applied Theatre

2.1 How Do We Make Applied Theatre?

2.2 Who Are the Performers of Applied Theatre?

2.3 Who Is Applied Theatre for?

2.4 What Are the Interactions between Actors, Spectators and Facilitators in Appliedtheatre?

2.5 How Do We Assess Applied Theatre?

2.6 What Are the Key Areas to Effective Applied Theatre Practice?

Summary

Further Reading

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Suggested Activities

Chapter Three: Story, Storytelling and Applied Theatre

3.1 How Is Story Related to Applied Theatre?

3.2 What Kinds of Stories Inform Applied Theatre?

3.3 What Is Effective Storytelling?

3.4 How Does Storytelling Change in Applied Theatre?

3.5 What Are the Issues around the Uses of Story in Applied Theatre?

Summary

Further Reading

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Suggested Activities

Part Two: The Landscape of Applied Theatre

Chapter Four: Popular Theatre

Introduction

4.1 Popular Theatre as Spectacle

4.2 Puppetry with at-Risk Youth

4.3 Comic Performance in Bangkok

4.4 Street Theatre for Safer Practices

Further Reading

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Suggested Activities

Web Resources

Chapter Five: Documentary Theatre

Introduction

5.1 Fight for Freedom

5.2 Translating Testimony

5.3 Reciprocating Roles

5.4 Detaining Asylum Seekers in Australia

Further Reading

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Suggested Activities

Web Resources

Chapter Six: Theatre in Education (TIE)

Introduction

6.1 Human Rights

6.2 Disability and the Inclusive Classroom

6.3 Countering Radicalization

6.4 Child Abuse and Family Violence

Further Reading

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Suggested Activities

Web Resources

Chapter Seven: Theatre of the Oppressed (TO)

Introduction

7.1 A letter from Augusto Boal

7.2 Forum Theatre on Sexual Harassment

7.3 Igniting the social imagination

7.4 Life skills in medical education

Further Reading

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Suggested Activities

Web Resources

Part Three: The Locations of Applied Theatre

Chapter Eight: Theatre in Health Education (THE)

Introduction

8.1 HIV/AIDS

8.2 Prenatal Screening as Multimedia Performance

8.3 Approaching a Doctor’s Life

Further Reading

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Suggested Activities

Web Resources

Chapter Nine: Theatre for Development (TfD)

Introduction

9.1 A Bangladesh TfD Project

9.2 Education for Political Process in Uganda

9.3 Women’s Rights in Pakistan

9.4 University-Community Environmental Education

Further Reading

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Suggested Activities

Web Resources

Chapter Ten: Prison Theatre

Introduction

10.1 Critical Citizenship in Prison

10.2 Fatherhood and Family

10.3 Death and Dreams

10.4 Human Rights in a Brazilian Prison

Further Reading

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Suggested Activities

Web Resources

Chapter Eleven: Community-Based Theatre

Introduction

11.1 Large-Scale Community Play

11.2 The ‘World of Systems’/the ‘World of Life’

11.3 Working with War Veterans

11.4 Dreams over Reality

Further Reading

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Suggested Activities

Web Resources

Chapter Twelve: Museum Theatre

Introduction

12.1 In the present Looking at the Past

12.2 Re-examining History through Museum Theatre

12.3 Museum–university Partnership

Further Reading

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Suggested Activities

Web Resources

Chapter Thirteen: Reminiscence Theatre

Introduction

13.1 Interrogating Reminiscence

13.2 Memory and Transgression

13.3 Intergenerational Reminiscence Theatre

13.4 Uncharted Territory of Widowhood

Further Reading

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Suggested Activities

Web Resources

Part Four: Challenges for Practice

Chapter Fourteen: Participation, Aesthetics, Ethics and Assessment

Introduction

14.1 Participation

14.2 Artistry and Aesthetics

14.3 Ethics

14.4 Assessment/Evaluation

Summary

Further Reading

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Suggested Activities

Afterword Reflection

Bibliography

Author Index

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