1st Edition

Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth The Performing Justice Project

By Megan Alrutz, Lynn Hoare Copyright 2020
376 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

376 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

376 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth: The Performing Justice Project offers accessible frameworks for devising original theatre, developing critical understandings of racial and gender justice, and supporting youth to imagine, create, and perform possibilities for a more just and equitable society. Working at the intersections of theory and practice, Alrutz and Hoare present... Read more

List of Illustrations  List of Performance Actions  Doing Justice Author Biographies  Acknowledgements  Authors' Notes  1. Performing Justice Project as Critically Engaged Theatre  2. Preparing Participants and Performing Justice  3. Producing a Performing Justice Project  Epilogue  Appendix  Index of PJP Performance Actions  Index  Belonging Is Political

Biography

Dr. Megan Alrutz (she/her) is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where she heads the Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities area. She works nationally and internationally as a theatre-maker, as well as an applied theatre facilitator focused on gender and racial justice.

Lynn Hoare (she/her) is a nationally recognized facilitator in applied theatre, Theatre in Education, and theatre for dialogue. She is the Senior Director of School-Based Programs at Creative Action, a creative youth development organization, where she uses theatre to activate youth and communities around issues relevant to their lives.

Recipient of the 2021 Distinguished Book Award from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education!