Staging Social Justice: Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre (Theater in the Americas) - Softcover

Book 28 of 45: Theater in the Americas
 
9780809332380: Staging Social Justice: Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre (Theater in the Americas)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0809332388 ISBN 13: 9780809332380
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013

Synopsis


Fringe Benefits, an award-winning theatre company, collaborates with schools and communities to create plays that promote constructive dialogue about diversity and discrimination issues. Staging Social Justice is a groundbreaking collection of essays about Fringe Benefits’ script-devising methodology and their collaborations in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. The anthology also vividly describes the transformative impact of these creative initiatives on participants and audiences.  By reflecting on their experiences working on these projects, the contributing writers—artists, activists and scholars—provide the readerwith tools and inspiration to create their own theatre for social change.  

“Contributors to this big-hearted collection share Fringe Benefits’ play devising process, and a compelling array of methods for measuring impact, approaches to aesthetics (with humor high on the list), coalition and community building, reflections on safe space, and acknowledgement of the diverse roles needed to apply theatre to social justice goals. The book beautifully bears witness to both how generative Fringe Benefits’ collaborations have been for participants and to the potential of engaged art in multidisciplinary ecosystems more broadly.”—Jan Cohen-Cruz, editor of Public: A Journal of Imagining America

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About the Author


Norma Bowles is the artistic director of Fringe Benefits and the first recipient of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s award for leadership in community-based arts and civic Engagement.

 

Daniel-Raymond Nadon is an associate professor of theatre and LGBT studies at Kent State University and U.S./Canada Fulbright and Theatre for Social Justice scholar. 

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Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0809332388
ISBN 13 
9780809332380
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
328
Editor
Bowles Norma, Nadon Daniel-Raymond