{"title":"The promise and pain of devising as deliberative democracy: Out Of Character Theatre Company’s Fresh Visions trilogy","authors":"C. Heinemeyer, Paul R. J. Birch, N. Rowe","doi":"10.1080/13569783.2022.2052832","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Out Of Character Theatre Company's Fresh Visions project pursued an innovative theatre-based research methodology which enabled sustained, in-depth, polyphonic and dialogic engagement around the future shape of local mental health services. Since our previous research (Heinemeyer, Catherine and Nick Rowe. 2019. ‘Being Known, Branching Out: Troupes, Teams and Recovery.’ Mental Health Review Journal 24(3): 212-227) indicated that theatre devising can act as ‘intuitive democracy’, we ask whether Fresh Visions constituted a deliberative democracy exercise. We explore both the ‘promise’ of theatre-led approaches to overcome power imbalances and embrace dissent in deliberative processes, and their attendant ‘pain’ and limitations.","PeriodicalId":186209,"journal":{"name":"Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance","volume":"254 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2022.2052832","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT Out Of Character Theatre Company's Fresh Visions project pursued an innovative theatre-based research methodology which enabled sustained, in-depth, polyphonic and dialogic engagement around the future shape of local mental health services. Since our previous research (Heinemeyer, Catherine and Nick Rowe. 2019. ‘Being Known, Branching Out: Troupes, Teams and Recovery.’ Mental Health Review Journal 24(3): 212-227) indicated that theatre devising can act as ‘intuitive democracy’, we ask whether Fresh Visions constituted a deliberative democracy exercise. We explore both the ‘promise’ of theatre-led approaches to overcome power imbalances and embrace dissent in deliberative processes, and their attendant ‘pain’ and limitations.
Out Of Character剧院公司的Fresh Visions项目采用了一种创新的基于剧院的研究方法,该方法能够围绕当地心理健康服务的未来形态进行持续、深入、多腔和对话的参与。自我们之前的研究(Heinemeyer, Catherine和Nick Rowe. 2019)以来。《为人所知,拓展业务:剧团、团队和复苏》。《心理健康评论杂志》24(3):212-227)指出戏剧设计可以作为“直觉民主”,我们问Fresh Visions是否构成了一种审议民主的实践。我们探讨了戏剧主导方法的“承诺”,以克服权力不平衡,并在审议过程中接受异议,以及随之而来的“痛苦”和限制。