Applied Theatre: Ethics

Hardback

Main Details

Title Applied Theatre: Ethics
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta
Edited by Monica Prendergast
Series edited by Prof Michael Balfour
SeriesApplied Theatre
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:296
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreDrama
Ethics and moral philosophy
ISBN/Barcode 9781350161320
ClassificationsDewey:792.01
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations 10 bw illus

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publication Date 24 February 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Applied Theatre: Ethics explores what it means for applied theatre practice to be conducted in an ethical way and examines how this affects the work done with communities and participants. It considers how practitioners can balance aesthetics and ethics when creating performance, particularly with relatively inexperienced and often vulnerable groups of people who are being asked to both tell and stage their stories. The two sections bring together theoretical and practical ways for theatre-makers to examine the ethics of their applied theatre projects. Part One offers an overview of critical debates and the editors' reflections on their own practice. It introduces readers to ethics in applied theatre, informed by the thinking of philosophers, scholarly literature and the editors' own experience, including Indigenous perspectives on ethics and theatre. For applied theatre practitioners, it provides recommendations for community-based ethical approaches working with principles of voice, agency, care, service, collaboration, presence, relationality and reciprocity. Part Two presents a range of international case studies that explore how the theories and issues are worked out in a variety of diverse practices. It considers ethics from varying critical perspectives and contexts, including projects in Greece, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Philippines and Canada. Covering work with participants of many ages, the case studies include the work of a professional dance theatre company working with people in substance abuse recovery in the UK, interactive drama used in an educational context in Nigeria, and the complexities around an applied theatre project on race in the US.

Author Biography

Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta is Associate Professor of Applied Theatre in the Faculty of Fine Arts at University of Victoria, Canada. Monica Prendergast is Professor of Drama/Theatre Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Victoria, Canada.