Community Engaged Theatre: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English; Vol. 19 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887549322 ISBN 13: 9780887549328

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press, 2011

Synopsis

These essays include in-depth analysis of the community play in Canada, storytelling in law and critical pedagogy, the politics of negotiating community, and glimpses into projects ranging from inside Matsqui Penitentiary to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, a Toronto mental-health care facility to under the Bathurst Street Bridge, from Caravan’s BC woods to inside a Newfoundland mine.

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About the Authors

Julie Salverson is a writer, speaker, teacher, and workshop leader who has worked in professional and community engaged performance for many years. Her theatre, opera, and essays embrace the relationship of imagination and foolish witness to stories of violence. Her book Lines of Flight: An Atomic Memoir (Wolsak & Wynn) follows her journey tracing uranium from the Northwest Territories to Hiroshima while unearthing the secrets of her childhood, burning out as an activist, and finding beauty in haunted places. She runs workshops for groups practising resiliency through drama. She has published many essays about how to witness a terribly beautiful world as well as the role of clown and courage in facing difficulty. She is a professor of drama at the Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen’s University and is based in Kingston, Ontario.

Ric Knowles is a freelance dramaturge and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph. He is the award-winning author or editor of twenty books on theatre and performance, including Fundamentals of Directing, Judith Thompson, The Masks of Judith Thompson, "Ethnic," Multicultural, and Intercultural Theatre (with Ingrid Mündel), The Shakespeare’s Mine, Asian Canadian Theatre (with Nina Lee Aquino), Staging Coyote’s Dream (two volumes, with Monique Mojica), and Performing Indigeneity (with Yvette Nolan). He is also founding editor of the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English and New Essays on Canadian Theatre.

Edition details

• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887549322
• ISBN 13: 9780887549328
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Salverson Julie