Staging Social Justice Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre |
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Editor:
| Bowles, Norma Nadon, Daniel-Raymond |
Contribution by:
| Flint, Daniel-Raymond Halse, Carly Hanley, Megan Pippa, Cristina Finnerty, Diane Thornton, Lindsey Barlag Acevedo, Amanda Dunne Armstrong, Ann Elizabeth Moore, Bryan Calhoun, Tracey Kaye, David Iverson, Susan V. Ellison, Michael Solano, Bernardo Solano, Paula Weston Walker, Xanthia Angel Busby, Selina McNamara, Catherine Juhl, Kathleen Smith, Lindsey Ainsworth, Rod Pippen, Jude Root, Rebecca Tacconelli, Erasmo Ardern, Jessy Kiener, Brooke Goodson, Laura Reed Brusilovsky, Natalya Grills, Crystal |
Foreword by:
| Rauch, Bill |
Series title: | Theater in the Americas Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8093-3239-7 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2013 |
Publisher: | Southern Illinois University Press
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $27.99 |
Book Description:
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Fringe Benefits, an award-winning theatre company, collaborates with schools and communities to create plays that promote constructive dialogue about diversity and discrimination issues. Staging Social Justice is a groundbreaking collection of essays about Fringe Benefits' script-devising methodology and their collaborations in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. The anthology also vividly describes the transformative...
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Fringe Benefits, an award-winning theatre company, collaborates with schools and communities to create plays that promote constructive dialogue about diversity and discrimination issues. Staging Social Justice is a groundbreaking collection of essays about Fringe Benefits' script-devising methodology and their collaborations in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. The anthology also vividly describes the transformative impact of these creative initiatives on participants and audiences. By reflecting on their experiences working on these projects, the contributing writers--artists, activists and scholars--provide the readerwith tools and inspiration to create their own theatre for social change.
"Contributors to this big-hearted collection share Fringe Benefits' play devising process, and a compelling array of methods for measuring impact, approaches to aesthetics (with humor high on the list), coalition and community building, reflections on safe space, and acknowledgement of the diverse roles needed to apply theatre to social justice goals. The book beautifully bears witness to both how generative Fringe Benefits' collaborations have been for participants and to the potential of engaged art in multidisciplinary ecosystems more broadly."--Jan Cohen-Cruz, editor of Public: A Journal of Imagining America