1st Edition
British Theatre and Young People Theory and Performance in the 21st Century
Preface
Part 1. Socially Engaged Performances
1. ‘Growing Sideways’ in Mark Ravenhill’s Play for Young People, Citizenship
Uğur Ada
2. Polly Stenham’s That Face: A Portrait of Parentification and Dependency
Ajda Baştan
3. ‘Packing Boxes’ by/for the Young: Precarity and Cruel Optimism in Wish List
Susana Nicolás Román
4. “It’s Just the Persuading Bit”: Children, Performance and Climate Action
Rachael Newberry
5. The Cancellation of The Family Sex Show
James Peachey-Baker
Part 2. Adaptation and Appropriation
6. A Tale of Temptation and Redemption: Staging Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market for a Young Audience
Ester Díaz Morillo
7. ‘‘We’re Women. Not Children. Not Little Girls’’: Zadie Smith’s Theatrical Adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath
Pilar Botías Domínguez
8. Dumbing Down or Playing Up? Directing Shakespeare for Young People
Leonard Love
9. Bring British Youth Theatre Overseas: A Case Study on Route to China
Xiaolin Huang and Yiming Wang
Part 3. Local, National and International Voices
10. Imagining Beyond the Barbarism
Richard Holmes and Ben Ballin
11. Destinies: An Applied Theatre Co-creation with Vulnerable Groups Producing Inter-relational Communities of Practice
Ava Hunt
12. Youth Theatre of Sanctuary: Arts, Inclusion and Leadership Initiative A Case Study on the Impact that Collaborative, Live and Digital Theatre Practices has had on the Lives of People Seeking Sanctuary and the Communities They Live in
Rosie MacPherson and Zoe Katsilerou
13. Theatrical Event in Your Own Playground: Use of Mobile Space to Enhance Theatre Productions Provision in Primary Schools
James Woodhams
Biography
Uğur Ada is currently working as Assistant Professor Doctor at Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University in Türkiye. He holds a PhD degree and his dissertation is entitled “Theatre in Education and the Analysis of Edward Bond’s Big Brum Plays within the Context of Theatre in Education”. His research areas are Contemporary British Theatre, Applied Theatre / Drama, In-Yer-Face Theatre and Theatre and Young People. His Recent book publications include Eğitimde Tiyatro/ Theatre in Education (TiE) (2021) and Edward Bond: Bondian Drama and Young Audience (2023).
