Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2022.2084332
Xunnan Li
ABSTRACT Neoliberalism as it emerged from the West, has been localised when it entered China along with the global market. In the 2010s, a series of neoliberal policies under the mass entrepreneurship and mass innovation (MEMI) initiative were launched to support an entrepreneurial environment for Chinese theatres. To understand how the state applied neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics to Chinese (applied) theatre via the practice of MEMI policies, this paper acknowledges Althusser’s theories of ideological state apparatuses (ISAs) and interpellation to demonstrate the construction of the ideological relationship between Chinese theatre artists and China’s government.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2022.2083491
Jackie Kauli, V. Thomas
ABSTRACT International development partnerships are characterised by inherent power relations with community partners often seen as needing assistance in fixing their problems. In this paper, we discuss the limitations of this perspective on the example of gender equality in the Pacific. We explore applied theatre tools to work with a variety of stakeholders to problematise policy issues while exploring different worldviews and knowledges. Our work demonstrates how the voices of community-based organisations can be recognised by governments and donor agencies and how practices of applied theatre can provide tools for designing, reflecting, and advocating for change in joint partnerships.
{"title":"Contextualising gender policies: encouraging parity of participation through applied theatre","authors":"Jackie Kauli, V. Thomas","doi":"10.1080/13569783.2022.2083491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2022.2083491","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT International development partnerships are characterised by inherent power relations with community partners often seen as needing assistance in fixing their problems. In this paper, we discuss the limitations of this perspective on the example of gender equality in the Pacific. We explore applied theatre tools to work with a variety of stakeholders to problematise policy issues while exploring different worldviews and knowledges. Our work demonstrates how the voices of community-based organisations can be recognised by governments and donor agencies and how practices of applied theatre can provide tools for designing, reflecting, and advocating for change in joint partnerships.","PeriodicalId":186209,"journal":{"name":"Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121109567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2022.2088274
Ananda Breed, K. Pells, M. Elliott, T. Prentki
ABSTRACT This article will provide an overview of how the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) has attempted to explore the use of interdisciplinary art-based practices for peacebuilding in Rwanda. In particular, we will detail how performance has been used to create a two-way system of communication between young people and policy-makers based on the issues that young people face towards developing an approach to teaching and learning informed by and with young people.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2022.2052832
C. Heinemeyer, Paul R. J. Birch, N. Rowe
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。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2022.2086039
Sarah Fahmy, B. Osnes
ABSTRACT Recognising young women’s authorship as a powerful force for civic change, we developed a creative framework for applied theatre that cultivates a space for young women to co-author little words, BIG ISSUES: a diversity and inclusion workshop facilitated in cooperation with U.S middle school students. Activating girl-led activism through performance-based methods, students envisioned a more inclusive community by practising how to author responses to the hurtful little words that relate to big societal issues. We describe and analyse the programme design and workshop facilitation, and emphasise the value of young women’s leadership in pursuing inclusivity in a variety of contexts.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-27DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2022.2091926
J. Shu
ABSTRACT This article reports on an oral history theatre project completed by a Hong Kong professional theatre company which involved more than 200 elders who participated as devising actors in two stage performances, with school students and the wider public as audiences. The study found that older participants in the project were much satisfied with their creative experience as a meaningful process to make sense of their past life – an artistic integration of memories for achieving coherent internal life-history. Using both quantitative questionnaire and qualitative methods, the paper discusses how these elders were mentally, emotionally, socially, and physically transformed through the art form of oral history theatre.
{"title":"The art of growing old: oral history theatre plays a part","authors":"J. Shu","doi":"10.1080/13569783.2022.2091926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2022.2091926","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article reports on an oral history theatre project completed by a Hong Kong professional theatre company which involved more than 200 elders who participated as devising actors in two stage performances, with school students and the wider public as audiences. The study found that older participants in the project were much satisfied with their creative experience as a meaningful process to make sense of their past life – an artistic integration of memories for achieving coherent internal life-history. Using both quantitative questionnaire and qualitative methods, the paper discusses how these elders were mentally, emotionally, socially, and physically transformed through the art form of oral history theatre.","PeriodicalId":186209,"journal":{"name":"Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133663655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-22DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2022.2091927
S. Schonmann
ABSTRACT This study presents the idea that radical theatre for young audiences is necessary to wake up the field and cultivate moral, social and aesthetic values. It does it through a discussion of four essential topics: (a) The essence of theatre for young audiences (its characterisation and emphasis on its distinctiveness); (b) Ecology of theatre; (c) Radical theatre for young audiences; (d) And radical forms of performance. The notion of ‘otherness’ is woven into the four themes derived from the attitude that we must release fixed thought patterns to allow for different ways of thinking about topics that change over time.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-06DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2022.2083951
A. Walsh, Silvia Olvera-Hernandez, M. A. Mesa-Jurado, A. Borchi, P. Novo, J. Martin-Ortega, G. Holmes
ABSTRACT This article intervenes in the persistent hierarchy of epistemological worth that produces scientific knowledge as meaningful, and knowledge from arts or humanities as marginal, or illustrative. The specific trans-disciplinary project we discuss brings together environmental social sciences with performance-based Forum Theatre methods to explore ‘value’ as understood in communities in Tabasco and Chiapas, Mexico in relation to Payment for Ecosystem Services. Trans-disciplinary collaborations that seek to incorporate ‘novel’ methods to engage participants differently might better reflect the dynamic, emergent, and often shifting nature of beliefs, attitudes and values.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-02DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2022.2083493
Lori M. Esposito
{"title":"Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters","authors":"Lori M. Esposito","doi":"10.1080/13569783.2022.2083493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2022.2083493","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":186209,"journal":{"name":"Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123165258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-19DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2022.2064738
T. Wells, Susan Sandretto, Jane Tilson
ABSTRACT Metaxis offers a powerful, yet elusive space for learning. We argue that authentic questions can provoke compelling metaxis moments where students and their teachers straddle two worlds at one time: the fictional and the real. We report findings from two New Zealand research projects in primary schools where we investigated the precursors to metaxis moments in process drama. We analysed lesson plans (LP) and group meeting, lesson and individual interview transcripts through a sociocultural lens. We present two vignettes to illustrate the interplay between metaxis moments, process drama pedagogy and authentic questioning when exploring issues of global concern.
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