It explores the notions of 'theatre and/for development' and some of its many manifestations. This includes such 'levels' as theatre applied to social consciousness raising about significant local issues, the role of theatre as individual and collective therapy in post-conflict situations, as a ...
Rather than arguing for or against empathy, I suggest that we must ask what kind of empathy best promotes social change and how the theatre can help us encourage that empathy. I advocate a model of empathy based on a sense of parity, dialogue, and non-linearity. Empathy, I argue, is ...
The MA Theatre for Social, Political and Environmental Change offers a unique opportunity to study theatrical responses to climate change and other pressing social and political issues. This course will equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to shake up the world around you through ...
Rebus celebrated our 10 year anniversary this year on December 2nd. We were joined by Rebus family old and new for an afternoon of reflections on our decade of theatre (and other arts) for social change. Call For Disabled Visual Artists for the Re-Emergence Film Project ...
THE KANDAKE DANCE THEATRE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE 1001 Nights: Love Stories on Death Row (A Rock Opera) The legendary, storytelling Queen Scheherazade is reborn as Shezadi—a queer, immigrant mother and abuse survivor who shares stories about her life, and folklore from her culture, in order to rem...
Performance and Development: Theatre for Social Change Development itself can be seen as a form of 'performance'—as the carrying out or acceptance of a range of particular kinds of actions and interventions. In the light of this performative nature of development, it is not surprising that .....
Acting Out HIV/AIDS Behind Bars: The Appropriation of Theatre for Social Change in the Renegotiation of Behaviours Around HIV/AIDSEquidistant from one of Durban's most prestigious suburbs, Westville – to the North; and the highly politicised land that is now the informal settlement, Cato Manor ...
Contemporary Irish theatre and social change: activist aesthetics Tamara Radak
As we are in our 40th year of operations until the end of 2024, we have been reflecting on the needs of the communities we serve and the path MCT will take as we catalyze our next 40 years of empowering social change. Our first production in 1983, “Life on the Line” was written ...
social changeThis article proposes a praxis perspective on the use of theatre as a tool for healing and social change that engages with the contemporary complexities of any context in which it is used, rather than relying on the rigid replication of tried forms. The South African colloquialism ...