A Theatre for Social Justice Project in the UK

Catherine McNamara; Selina Busby

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 language	English
Title of host publication	Staging Social Justice: Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre
Editors	Norma Bowles, Daniel-Raymond Nadon
Place of Publication	Carbondale and Edwardsville
Publisher	Southern Illinois University Press
Pages	174-185
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	978-0809332397
ISBN (Print)	978-0809332380
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2013

Publication series

Name	Theater in the Americas
Publisher	Southern Illinois University Press

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

Keywords

Applied, writing, LGBTQ, trans, community

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Staging Social Justice: Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre. ed. / Norma Bowles; Daniel-Raymond Nadon. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013. p. 174-185 (Theater in the Americas).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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A Theatre for Social Justice Project in the UK

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