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Applied Theatre: A Pedagogy of Utopia

Autor Selina Busby
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Shortlisted for the 2022 TaPRA David Bradby Monograph PrizeApplied Theatre is a widely accepted term to describe a set of practices that encompass community, social and participatory theatre making. It is an area of performance practice that is flourishing across global contexts and communities. However, this proliferation is not unproblematic. A Pedagogy of Utopia offers a critical consideration of long-term applied and participatory theatre projects. In doing so, it provides a timely analysis of some of the concepts that inform applied theatre and outlines a new way of thinking about making theatre with differing groups of participants.The book problematizes some key concepts including safe spaces, voice, ethical practice and resistance. Selina Busby analyses applied theatre projects in India, the USA and the UK, in youth theatres, homeless shelters, prisons and with those living in informal housing settlements to consider her key question: What might a pedagogy of utopia look like? Drawing on 20-years of practice in a range of contexts, this book focuses on long-term interventions that raise troubling questions about applied theatre, cultural colonialism and power, while arguing that community or participatory theatre conversely has the potential to generate a resilient sense of optimism, or what Busby terms, a 'nebulous utopia'.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350086111
ISBN-10: 1350086118
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 7 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Presents a reconsideration and radical rethinking of key terms in applied theatre practice such as change and transformation, safe spaces, impact, exit strategies, ethical practice, process and product

Notă biografică

Selina Busby is a Principal Lecturer in Applied & Community Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK. She is a theatre practitioner who makes performances with a wide range of community groups across the globe.

Cuprins

Foreword, Helen NicholsonAcknowledgementsPermissionsIntroduction1. Costa Rica: Utilizing a Global Vision to Safeguard the Local Village2. Partnerships, Integrated Community Investment and Nebulous Utopia3. Aspirational Thinking: Social Justice and Critical Pedagogy4. Articulation and Amplification5. Finding a Thirdspace6. Geographies of ResistanceConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

Recenzii

Offers a fascinating and instructive insight into high-level applied theatre practice.
I have recommended Selina Busby's Applied Theatre: A Pedagogy of Utopia to both colleagues and students and have found inspiration in its pages myself. In her words, the book focuses on 'the positive contribution that making theatre can have when thinking about and acting for social justice, in opening up possibilities or "the field of the possible," in enhancing aspirational thinking and resisting what is, in order to create what is not yet, but which can be imagined' (pp. 204-205). The power of hope is the most potent force when facing inequity and injustice; theatre can give voice and agency and creative expression to those who may lack these in their lives. Busby's global survey of her practice is required reading for anyone who wants to be inspired, or re-inspired, with the reality that theatre can and does make tangible differences in peoples' lives.
[R]eaders are engrossed in the author's eloquent theoretical argument blended with her engaging storytelling of each different applied theatre project. Not only inspiring but also a critically necessary read for applied theatre students in our current time of trouble.