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Dramatherapy and social theatre : necessary dialogues

Title
Dramatherapy and social theatre : necessary dialogues / edited by Sue Jennings.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

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Additional Authors
Jennings, Sue, 1938-
Description
xvii, 245 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
Describes and debates some of the theoretical and practical issues in drama therapy and social theater. This book covers such topics as drama therapy in communities; drama therapy with adoptive and foster families; and, research with professional acttors. It is suitable for those involved in drama therapy and theater studies.--
Subject
  • Drama > Therapeutic use
  • Theater and society
  • Drama
  • Group psychotherapy
  • Drama
  • Psychotherapy, Group
  • plays (performing arts compositions)
  • drama (literary genre)
  • Group psychotherapy
  • Drama > Therapeutic use
  • Theater and society
  • Psychotherapie
  • Theaterspiel
  • Sozialarbeit
  • Psychodrama
  • Toneel
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue: 'Escape unto myself : personal experience and public performance' / Sue Jennings -- Social theatre : an exercise in trusting the art / Elektra Tselikas -- Dramatherapy and social theatre : a question of boundaries / Anna Seymour -- Like ham in a temperance hotel : healing, participation and education in social theatre / Guglielmo Schininà -- Ah pava! Nathiye : respecting silence and the performances of not-telling / James Thompson -- On the dramaturgy of communities / Claudio Bernardi -- What a riot! / Mady Schutzman -- Seventeenth-century theatre therapy : six Jacobean plays / John Casson -- Theatre and therapy : a necessary dialogue / Salvo Pitruzzella -- The making of Mickey B, a modern adaptation of Macbeth filmed in a maximum security prison in Northern Ireland / Tom Magill and Jennifer Marquis-Muradaz -- Making, breaking, and making again : theatre in search of healing in India / Aanand Chabukswar -- Social theatre : a theatre of empowerment to address bullying in schools / Andy Hickson -- Social theatre in Palestine / Marina Barham -- 'The only thing better than playing on a stage is playing at the heart of life' / Alenka Vidrih -- Social theatre : an integration of education and theatre arts : the Portuguese experience / Lucilia Valente -- Trinidad's Camboulay street dance-play and the carnivalesque placebo : a neurotheological interface between social theatre and post-traumatic slave syndrome / Terrence Wendell Brathwaite -- Using an art form for mutual understanding and reconciliation in East Asia : a drama project, 'Ho'o Pono Pono : pax Pacifica' / Kyoko Okumoto -- Drama and well-being : narrative theory and the use of interactive theatre in raising mental health awareness / John Somers -- 'The theatre of attachment' : dramatherapy with adoptive and foster families / Joan Moore -- The 'puppet' that felt a breeze of its own energy : applied social theatre in the field of sexuality in Moldova / Lilia Raileanu -- Where professional actors are too 'good' : the RAP (respect and protect) project / David Evans, Sandy Akerman and John Tripp -- Epilogue : talking to actors / Roger Grainger.
ISBN
  • 9780415422062
  • 041542206X
  • 9780415422079
  • 0415422078
LCCN
2008050368
OCLC
  • ocn244057106
  • 244057106
  • SCSB-9785930
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library