1st Edition

Devising Theatre in Times of Crisis Practices for a Post-Pandemic World

Edited By Peter Duffy Copyright 2027
216 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Devising Theatre in Times of Crisis: Practices for a Post-Pandemic World explores the intersection of collective applied theatre practice and the promotion of subjective well-being during periods of global crisis. Drawing from the collaborative experiences of eight theatre professors across five continents during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book presents innovative approaches to ethical... Read more

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction. Art Making in the Crisology

Peter B. Duffy

Chapter 1. Traveling Towards Hope

Peter B. Duffy

Chapter 2. Exploring How to Activate Well-being through Devising Theatre in Times of Crisis and at the Threat of COVID-19 with Local and Global Communities

Wan-Jung Wang

Chapter 3. BRIGHT AND VIVID, QUIETLY WAITING: a critical reflection on post-COVID drama devising from Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree in an Australian tertiary setting

Richard Sallis and Chris Summers

Chapter 4. Of Leave/s and Leaving: Dialectical Dramaturgy as Devising Practice

Marcus Cheng Chye Tan

Chapter 5. Universities in Turkey during Covid-19 and The Red Tree Project

Zeki Özen

Chapter 6. Teaching drama unprofessionally: My experience with Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree Model at Makerere University, Uganda.

Mercy Mirembe Ntangaare

Chapter 7. Small Devising

Beth Murray, Brooke Fulton, and Shawnna Pledger

Chapter 8. A Pedagogy of Attunement: Personal, Aesthetic, and Cultural Entanglements

Peter B. Duffy

Chapter 9. Student Practitioner Conversation – Lessons from Isolation toward Hope

Index

Biography

Professor Peter Duffy, MFA, Ed.D. is Head of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program in Theatre Education, Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of South Carolina, USA.