Table of Contents

PART I; 1. Nicola Abraham APPLIED THEATRE: AN INTRODUCTION; 2. Nicola Abraham and Tim Prentki LEXICON; PART II Poetics of Representation; 3. Tim Prentki INTRODUCTION TO POETICS OF REPRESENTATION; 4. Mikhail Bakhtin RABELAIS AND HIS WORLD; 5. Marc Silberman, Steve Giles and Tom Kuhn (eds.) BRECHT ON THEATRE; 6. Sonia Norris and Julie Salverson LAUGHING AND YELLING IN THE TROUBLE: SPACES OF CONSENSUAL COURAGE ; 7. Adrian Jackson PROVOKING INTERVENTION; 8. Andy Watson ‘LIFT YOUR MASK’: GEESE THEATRE COMPANY IN PERFORMANCE; 9. Michael Balfour and Julie Dunn GEOGRAPHIES OF HOPE: EXPLORING DEPARTURES IN APPLIED THEATRE WORK WITH PEOPLE LIVING WITH ADVANCED DEMENTIA; 10. Colette Conroy and Sarah Jane Dickenson CULTURALLY PRODUCING AND NEGOTIATING WOMEN’S RUGBY LEAGUE HISTORIES THROUGH APPLIED PERFORMANCE; PART III Ethics of Representation; 11. Nicola Abraham INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS OF REPRESENTATION; 12. Stuart Hall THE WORK OF REPRESENTATION; 13. Chantal Mouffe ON THE POLITICAL; 14. bell hooks CHOOSING THE MARGIN AS A SPACE OF RADICAL OPENNESS; 15. Joe Winston and Chenchen Zeng DRAMA FOR MORAL EDUCATION IN MAINLAND CHINA: TENSIONS AND POSSIBILITIES; 16. Katharine Low, Phana Dube, Gerard Bester and Ben Gunn ‘I NEVER KNEW I HAD SO MANY HEALTH RIGHTS’ – DEVELOPING A HEALTH MANIFESTO WITH YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN HILLBROW; 17. Anna Herrmann and Caoimhe McAvinchey with contributions from Lucy Edkins, Jennifer Joseph, TerriAnn Oudjar, Jade Small, Deborah Pearson and Stacey Gregg INSIDE BITCH: CLEAN BREAK AND THE ETHICS OF REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM; 18. Gareth White THE ETHICS OF AESTHETIC RISK; 19. Marianne Nødtvedt Knudsen and Bjørn Rasmussen TRANSITION AND CHALLENGE – ETHICAL CONCERNS IN PRISON THEATRE; 20. Brendon Burns THEARE FOR DEMOCRACY; PART IV Participation and Inclusion; 21. Nicola Abraham INTRODUCTION TO PARTICIPATION AND INCLUSION; 22. Augusto Boal THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED; 23. Antonio Gramsci SELECTIONS FROM THE PRISON NOTEBOOKS; 24. Majid Rahnema PARTICIPATION; 25. Sara Ahmed ON ARRIVAL; 26. Ananda Breed, Kurtis Dennison, Sylvestre Nzahabwanayo, and Kirrily Pells MOBILE ARTS FOR PEACE (MAP): CURRICULUM FOR MUSIC, DANCE AND DRAMA IN RWANDA; 27. Marina Henriques Coutinho LEST ALL THINGS BE HELD UNALTERABLE: BRECHT’S MESSAGE TO ‘ZOMBIE DEMOCRACIES’; 28. Adelina Ong BEING IMPERFECT: BREAKIN’ AWAY FROM RELATING COMPETITIVELY IN SINGAPORE; 29. Sue Mayo THE GRATITUDE ENQUIRY: INVESTIGATING RECIPROCITY IN THREE COMMUNITY PROJECTS; PART V Intervention; 30. Tim Prentki INTRODUCTION TO INTERVENTION; 31. Noam Chomsky PROFIT OVER PEOPLE; 32. Zakes Mda WHEN PEOPLE PLAY PEOPLE; 33. Dorothy Heathcote FROM THE PARTICULAR TO THE UNIVERSAL; 34. Paul Sutton ACT SMART: USING C&T'S PROSPERO TECHNOLOGY TO SHAPE EFFICACIOUS THEATRE PRACTICES IN THE DIGITAL CENTURY; 35. Jonathan Fox UNEXPECTED RESILIENCE OF THE PARTICIPANT PERFORMANCE MODEL FOR PLAYBACK THEATRE; PART VI Border Crossing; 36. Tim Prentki INTRODUCTION TO BORDER CROSSING; 37. Henry Giroux BORDER CROSSINGS; 38. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o DECOLONISING THE MIND; 39. Jan Cohen-Cruz HOME, AWAY AND BACK AGAIN; 40. Salvo Pitruzzella BRECHT IN SICILY: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THEATRE AND DRAMA THERAPY; 41. Catherine McNamara THE TRANSACTING PROJECT; PART VII Change; 42. Nicola Abraham INTRODUCTION TO CHANGE; 43. Ira Shor PROBLEM-POSING SITUATED AND MULTICULTURAL LEARNING; 44. Renato Constantino SYNTHETIC CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT; 45. Michael Etherton CHILD RIGHTS THEATRE FOR DEVELOPMENT WITH DISADVANTAGED AND EXCLUDED CHILDREN IN SOUTH ASIA AND AFRICA; 46. Molly Mullen and Michelle Johansson, with Ashlee Niuia, Bayley Johansson, Billy Revell-Sīo, Carmel-Maria Savaiinaea, Faananafu Tofilau, Leonard Folau, Maria Ahmad and Viola Johansson OPENING DOORS, NOT FILLING BOXES: POLICY KINESIS AND YOUTH PERFORMANCE WITH THE BLACK FRIARS THEATRE COMPANY, AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND; 47. Nicola Abraham and Cristian Almarza EDUCASWITCH: PREVENTING BULLYING AND ADVOCATING SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LITERACY IN SCHOOLS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN CHILE; 48. Syed Jamil Ahmed PLANTING DREAM-SEEDS IN THE WIND WHEN THE POINT IS TO CHANGE; PART VIII Applied Theatre and Globalisation; 49. Tim Prentki APPLIED THEATRE IN GLOBAL MELTDOWN; Recommended Further Reading by part

About the Author

Tim Prentki is Emeritus Professor of Theatre for Development at the University of Winchester, UK.

Nicola Abraham is a Lecturer in Applied Theatre Practices at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK.