{"title":"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Checkpoint: Teaching Stand-Up Comedy in Occupied Palestine","authors":"Sam Beale","doi":"10.1080/15411796.2018.1530520","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article considers ideas about the performance of personal stories in stand-up comedy that emerged during a teaching and performance project in a refugee camp in Palestine. After experimenting with a range of stand-up techniques and approaches, participants created public performances sharing their experiences of life under military occupation.","PeriodicalId":53876,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Artist Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15411796.2018.1530520","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Teaching Artist Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15411796.2018.1530520","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT This article considers ideas about the performance of personal stories in stand-up comedy that emerged during a teaching and performance project in a refugee camp in Palestine. After experimenting with a range of stand-up techniques and approaches, participants created public performances sharing their experiences of life under military occupation.