'Being Part of Something Much Bigger than Self': The Community Play as a Model of Implicit and Explicit Political Theatre Practice

Autor/in	Weston, Sarah
Titel	'Being Part of Something Much Bigger than Self': The Community Play as a Model of Implicit and Explicit Political Theatre Practice
Quelle	In: Research in Drama Education, 25 (2020) 2, S.161-177 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-9783
DOI	10.1080/13569783.2019.1692653
Schlagwörter	Theater Arts; Community Programs; Politics; Social Action; Activism; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Theaterwissenschaft; Politik; Soziales Handeln; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	This article focuses on the community play, as conceived by Ann Jellicoe, as a form of political theatre-making. Examining two community play productions: "Drummer Hodge" (2014) and "Love on the Dole" (2016), I explore how the form's theatrical conventions combine with the play's content to generate political action. Discussing how the community play has been under-theorised in applied theatre literature, I argue that the form can bring together the more celebratory aspects of community that are present in applied theatre discourses, with explicit political motivations to create political practice in the context of twenty-first century austerity. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01