Applied Theatre: Facilitation

Pedagogies, Practices, Resilience

Sheila Preston

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781472576958
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Drama
• Index: Literature

Applied Theatre: Facilitation is the first publication that directly explores the facilitator's role within a range of socially engaged theatre and community theatre settings. The book offers a new theoretical framework for understanding critical facilitation in contemporary dilemmatic spaces and features a range of writings and provocations by international practitioners and experienced facilitators working in the field. Part One offers an introduction to the concept, role and practice of facilitation and its applications in different contexts and cultural locations. It offers a conceptual framework through which to understand the idea of critical facilitation: a political practice that that involves a critical (and self-critical) approach to pedagogies, practices (doing and performing), and resilience in dilemmatic spaces. Part Two illuminates the diversity in the field of facilitation in applied theatre through offering multiple voices, case studies, theoretical positions and contexts. These are drawn from Australia, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, India, Israel/Palestine, Rwanda, the United Kingdom and North America, and they apply a range of aesthetic forms: performance, process drama, forum, clowning and playmaking. Each chapter presents the challenge of facilitation in a range of cultural contexts with communities whose complex histories and experiences have led them to be disenfranchised socially, culturally and/or economically.

Table of contents

• FC
• Half title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction to Facilitation
• Part 1 A Conceptual Framework
• 1 Pedagogies: Critical Facilitation
• 2 Practices: Doing and Performing
• 3 Resilience in Dilemmatic Spaces
• Part 2 Case Studies: Pedagogies, Practices and Contexts
• 4 Send in the Clowns Paul Murray
• 5 All Our Stress Goes in the River: The Drama Workshop as a (Playful) Space for Reconciliation Sarah Woodland
• 6 Repositioning the Learning-Disabled Performing Arts Student as Critical Facilitator Liselle Terret
• 7 The Art of Facilitation: ‘ ’T’ain’t What You Do (It’s The Way That You Do It)’ Michael Balfour
• 8 More than a Sum of Parts? Responsivity and Respond-ability in Applied Theatre Practitioner Expertise Kay Hepplewhite
• 9 The Artist as Questioner: Why We Do What We Do Ananda Breed
• 10 ‘Ain’t you got a right to the tree of life?’: Facilitators’ Intentions Towards Community, Integrity and Justice Cynthia Cohen
• Afterword
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index