Tag: Applied Theatre
Michael Finneran: Distance and tyranny: Understanding drama, democracy & politics
Drama claims a unique relationship with democracy, politics and citizenship. We assert it as our birthright: borne from the ancient Greeks to Brecht; from Boal to Dario Fo. How sustainable is the claim? How...
Natalie Lazaroo and Izzaty Ishak: The tyranny of (emotional) distance?: Emotional labour and safe...
This paper takes as its theoretical starting points two ideas:(1) Sheila Preston’s (2013) discussion of emotional labour; and (2) ‘safe space’ as explored by Mary Ann Hunter (2008). It considers how ‘tyranny of distance’...
Chris Blois-Brooke: Documenting ‘Otherness’: The Tyrannical Construction of Knowledge about Theatre for Development?
With Applied Theatre practitioners continuing to work in disparate corners of the world, the documentation of practice is important to allow ideas to travel and be exchanged across borders. Whilst the documents may be...