Working from a multi-cultural perspective, this book explores the value of performance as an agent of social change, and makes its arguments through the close examination of the success--not always complete--of specific projects in their practical and cultural contexts. Practitioners and commentators inquire as to how performance in its broadest context can play a part in community activism by helping communities find their own creative voices.
Author(s): Richard Boon, Jane Plastow
Series: Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 280
Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Notes on contributors......Page 11
1 Introduction......Page 15
NOTE......Page 26
2 The Wedding Community Play Project: a cross-community production in Northern Ireland......Page 27
NOTES......Page 45
3 The Poor Theatre of Monticchiello, Italy......Page 47
NOTES......Page 70
4 ‘What happened to you today that reminded you that you are a black man?’ The process of exploring black masculinities in performance, Great Britain......Page 74
NOTES......Page 103
5 Wielding the cultural weapon after apartheid: Bongani Linda’s Victory Sonqoba Theatre Company, South Africa......Page 108
Theatre for Development: education via mobilisation......Page 110
‘Each One Teach One’ and the peer education approach......Page 111
Community activist as professional artist......Page 113
Shaka Zulu: The Gaping Wound......Page 118
Kuku Roof (Cake Robbery)......Page 120
Vuka Uma Ulele (Wake up and Smell the Coffee)......Page 124
Conclusion......Page 130
NOTES......Page 132
6 Dance and transformation: the Adugna Community Dance Theatre, Ethiopia......Page 139
The genesis of a dance project......Page 141
Dance and development: a conflict of visions?......Page 145
Becoming Adugna......Page 149
Theatre training......Page 154
Personal journeys......Page 155
Into the community......Page 158
The Police Training Programme......Page 160
Dance with the disabled......Page 162
Moving outside the city......Page 163
Into the future......Page 164
NOTES......Page 167
7 The Day of Mourning/Pilgrim Progress in Plymouth, USA. Contesting processions: a report on performance, personification and empowerment......Page 169
The myth......Page 178
Plymouth town today......Page 186
The Pilgrim Progress/Day of Mourning processions: a brief history......Page 190
NOTES......Page 197
Sunday, 18 March 2001: fourth day of the Doti TfD Training Workshop......Page 202
The first TfD Training Workshop: Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 1998......Page 203
Helping to secure the rights of marginalised and disadvantaged children and young people around the world......Page 206
The significance of theatre for Child Rights......Page 207
Asia’s 400 million marginalised and powerless children......Page 209
Karachi, Pakistan, TfD Training Workshop, August 1999......Page 212
India: Ladakh TfD for Advocacy in Education Training Workshop, September 2000......Page 219
Nepal: Doti, Far West of Nepal, March 2001......Page 222
Nepal: puppets against the caste system......Page 224
Nepal: children and digital video filmmaking......Page 226
Hopes for great happenings: the global Children’s Movement......Page 228
Article 13......Page 230
Bangladesh......Page 231
Sri Lanka......Page 232
9 Theatre – a space for empowerment: celebrating Jana Sanskriti’s experience in India......Page 234
NOTES......Page 270
Index......Page 272
