Dramatherapy and Social Theatre

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Dramatherapy and Social Theatre: Necessary Dialogues considers the nature of drama, theatre and dramatherapy, examining how dramatherapy has evolved over the past decade and how the relationship between dramatherapy and social theatre has developed as a result.

In this book Sue Jennings brings together international dramatherapists and theatre practitioners to challenge, clarify, describe and debate some of the theoretical and practical issues in dramatherapy and social theatre. Contributors cover topics including:

Dramatherapy and Social Theatre is illustrated throughout with case vignettes providing examples of how theatre and therapeutic processes can be brought together. It will be valuable reading for both professionals and students involved in dramatherapy and theatre studies.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of contributors (p. viii)
• Introduction (p. xv)
• Prologue: 'Escape unto myself: Personal experience and public performance' (p. 1)
• Part I Dramatherapy and social theatre: A debate of ground rules and definitions (p. 13)
• 1 Social theatre: An exercise in trusting the art (p. 15)
• 2 Dramatherapy and social theatre: A question of boundaries (p. 27)
• 3 Like ham in a temperance hotel: Healing, participation and education in social theatre (p. 37)
• 4 4Ah pava! Nathiye: Respecting silence and the performances of not-telling (p. 48)
• 5 On the dramaturgy of communities (p. 63)
• Part II Theatre, social theatre and change: An exploration of texts and contexts (p. 71)
• 6 What a riot! (p. 73)
• 7 Seventeenth-century theatre therapy: Six Jacobean plays (p. 88)
• 8 Theatre and therapy: A necessary dialogue (p. 101)
• 9 The making of Mickey B, a modern adaptation of Macbeth filmed in a maximum security prison in Northern Ireland (p. 109)
• 10 Making, breaking, and making again: Theatre in search of healing in India (p. 117)
• Part III Social theatre, politics and change: A development of cross-cultural perspectives (p. 129)
• 11 Social theatre: A theatre of empowerment to address bullying in schools (p. 131)
• 12 Social theatre in Palestine (p. 141)
• 13 'The only thing better than playing on stage is playing at the heart of life' (p. 149)
• 14 Social theatre: An integration of education and theatre arts: The Portuguese experience (p. 157)
• 15 Trinidad's Camboulay Street Dance-Play and the carnivalesque placebo: A neurotheological interfacebetween social theatre and post-traumatic slave syndrome (p. 166)
• Part IV Dramatherapy and social theatre in practice: What we actually do (p. 181)
• 16 Using an art form for mutual understanding and reconciliation in East Asia: A drama project, 'Ho'o Pono Pono: Pax Pacifica' (p. 183)
• 17 Drama and well-being: Narrative theory and the use of interactive theatre in raising mental health awareness (p. 193)
• 18 'The Theatre of Attachment'™: Dramatherapy with adoptive and foster families (p. 203)
• 19 The 'puppet' that felt a breeze of its own energy: Applied social theatre in the field of sexuality in Moldova (p. 213)
• 20 Where professional actors are too 'good': The RAP (respect and protect) project (p. 220)
• Epilogue: Talking to actors (p. 231)
• Index (p. 240)