Kelly Freebody: Distance through critique: Moving beyond the ‘common-sense’ of drama for social change
This paper urges us to use a critical lens to distance ourselves from common-sense understandings of what we do and why. It unpacks key logics in our field – including participation, community, social justice,...
Madge Hair: Writing on Gumbaynggirr Country for Co-Created Theatre as Decolonising Practice
This presentation analyses the challenges and processes of cocreating pieces of musical theatre inspired by and responding to storylines from Gumbaynggirr country, mid-north coast, New South Wales. The central question posed by the presenter’s...
Talking with Ieltxu Ortueta – Faces of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019
Ieltxu Ortueta was born in Bilbao, Basque Country in Spain. He is the father of Gorka and Lua and is also an Actor, Performer, Art Historian, and Graphic Artist. Living and working...
Lise Hovik’s Animalium Workshop
Check out the video above for some workshop highlights from the session delivered at the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019 in Kristiansand.
Workshop Description:Through playing and improvisation exercises the workshop participants created...
Perceptions of Home in Vrygrond
“Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear”...
Yao Yao: Audience Reactions
Yao Yao was produced by BRUSH Theatre and was directed by Kiljun Lee, performed by Actors Byungwook Cho and Heeae Lee, with musical contributions by Sangguon Seo.
This magical piece of Theatre centres on the...
Shaping Stories
Construire des Histoires (trans. Shaping Stories) playwriting laboratory workshop was held at the Cradle of Creativity from 23rd to 27th May 2017 and welcomed Francophone Theatre Practitioners from 9 different African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo,...
Spirit Songs – Part 2
This is Part 2 of our materials on the production of Spirit Songs (click here for Part 1).
To hear more about the project, we sat down with Yonela Sithela, one of Magnet Theatre's Culture Gangs Facilitators who was...
Nicola Pauling: When Distance Lives next door; using applied theatre to strengthen complex social...
Wellington City’s 5000 social housing tenants live in medium and high-density housing communities. Cultural diversity amongst this population is high, including significant numbers of migrants and former refugees, while English as a first language,...
Matthew Decoursey: Boal, Bolton and Philosophy on Changes of Perception
Jacques Rancière suggests to us that the process of including excluded people has to do with change of perception, a new "distribution of the sensible." Distance emerges between people by a process of categorization...