Fiction Theatre Experience as Social & Pedagogical Practice

1. Fiction Realisation 2. Fiction Practice 3. Fiction Auto-Ethno Experience 4. Fiction Labels from Labelling to Reflexive Practice 5. Fiction Theatre: Real Fiction Method, Education Context 6. Fiction Data: Labelling: Young People’s Perceptions, Qualitative Surveys 7. Fiction Classroom 8. Fiction Monologues 9. Fiction Reflections 10. Fiction Phenomenology: Experience, Acting, Writing . . . Pedagogy 11. Fiction Theatre: A Social and Pedagogical Practice

Biography

Scott Welsh is an academic, playwright and poet with expertise in creativity, social constructionism and education. In a previous life, he lived for several years as a homeless person and sold his poetry on the street throughout Australia. Several of his plays have been performed at La Mama over the past two decades, and his poetry has been read by many and broadcast on ABC Radio National. Prior to that, he worked and wrote in regional Victoria, where he published several self-published books. In 2016, he completed a PhD on the role theatre can play in education, and his work emphasises the relationship between experience and creative practice. Most recently, his thoughts have turned to the homeless experience of his cat.

Scott Welsh’s voice is unabashedly honest and truthful. His perspective on theatre is clear and fresh. It epitomises his ideas of “conversational realities” and “real fiction”. Simple, pretension free. Empowering.
Liz Jones AO, Artistic Director, La Mama Theatre

Scott brings together an extraordinary body of work – work which is raw, honest, vulnerable and angry – to reflect deeply on a life lived within the creative process. As a scholar, teacher and practitioner, he is constantly working on the edge, developing new theories, testing new practices and exploring the nature of being human. His relentless innovation in drama and theatre is captured in these pages. This is a book for those who want to be inspired about the heart of theatre beating in us all.
Professor Mary-Rose McLaren, Victoria University

For those whose reality has been corrupted by injustice, fiction is the cure.
Let me begin with a question: How does the unreal journey into the real? And is it possible to use fiction as a guide for living? You can find the answer in Dr. Scott Welsh’s book. Drawing on his theatrical knowledge of acting, storytelling, and philosophy—enriched by poetry and a life lived as a contemporary human in challenging times—Dr. Welsh bridges the gap between the imagined and the actual.
This book, and his achievements, are vital. Without such a perspective, reality—with its direct and unsatisfying propositions—would have killed us a million times over.
The choice he offers comes through a humanistic point of view: a shared perspective, a conversation, a solution. Gold like this does not come from privilege. To find it, one must dive deep into the mine of life—a dangerous insight into what is most valuable.
Here, reality becomes the obeying factor, and imagination the rebellious act against one-sided belief.
Welcome to his book.
Dr. Elnaz Sheshgelani