Research Catalog

Title

Applied theatre : creative ageing / [edited by] Sheila McCormick.

Publication

• London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

McCormick, Sheila

Description

xiii, 258 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Applied Theatre: Creative Ageing examines the complex social, political and cultural needs of a diverse group in our society and asks how contemporary applied theatre responds to those needs. For the first time, this publication allows an examination of innovative national and international practice in applied theatre that responds to the needs of older adults to encourage outcomes such as wellbeing and social inclusion. The volume does so while also questioning how we, as a society, wish to respond to the complex needs of older adults and the process of ageing and how applied theatre practices can help us do so in a way that is both positive and inclusive. In Part One Sheila McCormick reviews and historicises the practice of applied theatre with, for and by the elderly. It argues that pioneering applied theatre strategies are vital if the creative practice is to respond to the growing needs of older members of society, and reflects on particular cultural responses to ageing and the elderly.0The second part of the book is made up of essays and case studies from leading experts and practitioners from Britain, America and Australia, including consideration of applied theatre approaches to dementia, health, wellbeing, social inclusion and Alzheimer's disease.

Series Statement

The Applied Theatre Series

Uniform Title

Applied theatre (Series)

Alternative Title

Applied theater

Subject

• Theater and older people
• Older people > Recreation
• Arts and older people

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Ageing, the individual and society / Sheila McCormick -- Perspectives on Practice: Applied Theatre and Ageing / Sheila McCormick -- Complicite and the clown: playful engagement and dementia / Michael Balfour, Julie Dunn, Wendy Moyle, Marie Cooke -- The Care Home as a Creative Space / Jayne Lloyd and Helen Nicholson -- A gentle inquiry into dark matter in arts-based research / Clive Parkinson -- From Islands to Networks: Using Improvisation to Build Relationships Among Individuals and Systems / Anne Davis Basting -- Interview with Mike Pearson -- Community arts and creative well-being for dementia / Beth Luxmoore.

Call Number

MWET 17-3547

ISBN

• 9781474233828
• 1474233821
• 9781474233835
• 147423383X

LCCN

2017003693

OCLC

992119731

Title

Applied theatre : creative ageing / [edited by] Sheila McCormick.

Publisher

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Applied Theatre Series

Applied theatre (Series)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index.

Added Author

McCormick, Sheila, editor, contributor.

Research Call Number

MWET 17-3547