Community Theatre Books

New and Published Books

1. Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama

   Community, Kinship, and Citizenship

   By Kanika Batra

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   In this timely study, Batra examines contemporary drama from India, Jamaica, and Nigeria in conjunction with feminist and incipient queer movements in these countries. Postcolonial drama, Batra contends, furthers the struggle for gender justice in both these movements by...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Social Works

   Performing Art, Supporting Publics

   By Shannon Jackson

   ‘a game-changer, a must-read for scholars, students and artists alike’ – Tom Finkelpearl At a time when art world critics and curators heavily debate the social, and when community organizers and civic activists are reconsidering the role of aesthetics in social reform, this book makes explicit...

   Published February 20th 2011 by Routledge
3. Engaging Performance

   Theatre as call and response

   By Jan Cohen-Cruz

   Engaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response presents a combined analysis and workbook to examine "socially engaged performance." It offers a range of key practical approaches, exercises, and principles for using performance to engage in a variety of social and artistic projects. Author Jan...

   Published July 20th 2010 by Routledge
4. Jana Sanskriti

   Forum Theatre and Democracy in India

   By Sanjoy Ganguly

   Jana Sanskriti Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed, based in West Bengal, is probably the largest and longest lasting Forum Theatre operation in the world. It was considered by Augusto Boal to be the chief exponent of his methodology outside of its native Brazil. This book is a unique...

   Published April 25th 2010 by Routledge
5. The Applied Theatre Reader

   Edited by Tim Prentki, Sheila Preston

   The Applied Theatre Reader is the first book to bring together new case studies of practice by leading practitioners and academics in the field and beyond, with classic source texts from writers such as Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, Mikhail Bakhtin, Augusto Boal, and Chantal Mouffe. This book divides...

   Published August 18th 2008 by Routledge
6. Young People, New Theatre

   A Practical Guide to an Intercultural Process

   By Noël Greig

   Young People, New Theatre is a ‘how-to’ book; exploring and explaining the process of collaborating creatively with groups of young people across cultural divides. Organized into exercises, case studies and specific topics, this book plots a route for those wishing to put this kind of theatre into...

   Published June 25th 2008 by Routledge
7. The Community Performance Reader

   Edited by Petra Kuppers, Gwen Robertson

   Community Performance: A Reader is the first book to provide comprehensive teaching materials for this significant part of the theatre studies curriculum. It brings together core writings and critical approaches to community performance work, presenting practices in the UK, USA, Australia...

   Published February 14th 2007 by Routledge
8. Community Performance: An Introduction

   By Petra Kuppers

   Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible practice-based primer for students and practitioners of community arts, dance and theatre. It is both a classroom-friendly textbook and a handbook for the practitioner, perfectly answering the needs of a field where...

   Published February 13th 2007 by Routledge
9. The Aesthetics of the Oppressed

   By Augusto Boal

   Augusto Boal's workshops and theatre exercises are renowned throughout the world for their life-changing effects. At last this major director, practitioner, and author of many books on community theatre speaks out about the subjects most important to him – the practical work he does with...

   Published March 21st 2006 by Routledge
10. A Boal Companion

    Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics

    Edited by Jan Cohen-Cruz, Mady Schutzman

    This carefully constructed and thorough collection of theoretical engagements with Augusto Boal’s work is the first to look ’beyond Boal’ and critically assesses the Theatre of the Opressed (TO) movement in context. A Boal Companion looks at the cultural practices which inform TO and explore them...

    Published December 7th 2005 by Routledge