Community Theatre Books

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1. Social Works: Performing Arts, Supporting Publics

   By Shannon Jackson

   At a time when art world critics and curators heavily debate the social, at a time when community organizers and civic activists are reconsidering the role of aesthetics in social reform, this book makes explicit some of the contradictions and competing stakes of contemporary experimental...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-48601-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Polish Ensemble Theatres

   By Grzegorz Ziolkowski

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-33129-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama: Community, Kinship, and Citizenship

   By Kanika Batra

   Kanika Batra is Assistant Professor of English at Texas Tech University....

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-87591-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   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...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-47214-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   April 2010 | 978-0-415-57752-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   2008 | 978-0-415-42887-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   2008 | 978-0-415-45251-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   2007 | 978-0-415-39231-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   2007 | 978-0-415-39229-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    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...

    2006 | 978-0-415-37177-3 | Paperback (Routledge)