Theatre and Empowerment : Community Drama on the World Stage Hardback
Edited by Richard (University of Leeds) Boon, Jane (University of Leeds) Plastow
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre series
Hardback
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Theatre and Empowerment examines the ability of drama, theatre, dance and performance to empower communities of very different kinds, and it does so from a multi-cultural perspective.
The communities involved include poverty-stricken children in Ethiopia and the Indian sub-continent, disenfranchised Native Americans in the USA and young black men in Britain, victims of violence in South Africa and Northern Ireland, and a threatened agricultural town in Italy.
The book asserts the value of performance as a vital agent of necessary social change, and makes its arguments through the close examination, from 'inside' practice, of the success - not always complete - of specific projects in their practical and cultural contexts.
Practitioners and commentators ask how performance in its widest sense can play a part in community activism on a scale larger than the individual, 'one-off' project by helping communities find their own liberating and creative voices.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:19/08/2004
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- ISBN:9780521817295
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:19/08/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521817295
