A Theatre for Social Justice Project in the UK

Catherine McNamara, Selina Busby

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    Abstract

    This essay explores a collaborative Theatre for Social Justice project that took place in London, United Kingdom, in 2008 and involved fifty participants. The key question we ask is, What are the key challenges when bringing student and community participants together to create theatre? We will start by outlining the nature of the international collaboration and then will unpack some of the tensions that emerged during the process of making a play and in relation to the play as product of the process. We will conclude by considering to what extent we were successful in creating quality art and effective theatre, playfully questioning whether this project was a creative success or a site of carnage.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationStaging Social Justice: Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre
    EditorsNorma Bowles, Daniel-Raymond Nadon
    Place of PublicationCarbondale and Edwardsville
    PublisherSouthern Illinois University Press
    Pages174-185
    Number of pages12
    ISBN (Electronic)978-0809332397
    ISBN (Print)978-0809332380
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2013

    Publication series

    NameTheater in the Americas
    PublisherSouthern Illinois University Press

    Keywords

    • Applied, writing, LGBTQ, trans, community

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