Applied Theatre and Gender Justice is a collection of essays highlighting the value and efficacy of using applied theatre to address gender in a broad range of settings, identifying challenges, and offering concrete best practices.
This book amplifies and shares lessons from practitioners and scholars who use performance to create models of collective solidarity, building upon communities’ strengths toward advocating for justice and equity. The book is divided into thematic sections, comprising three essays addressing a range of questions about the challenges, learning opportunities, and benefits of applied theatre practices. Further exploring the themes, issues, and ideas, each section ends with a moderated roundtable discussion between the essays' authors.
Part of the series Applied Theatre in Context, Applied Theatre and Gender Justice, this book is an accessible and valuable resource for theatre practitioners and the growing number of theatre companies with education and community engagement programs. Additionally, it provides essential reading for teachers and students in a myriad of fields: education, theatre, civic engagement, criminal justice, sociology, women and gender studies, environmental studies, disability studies, and ethnicity and race studies.
Edited by:
Lisa S. Brenner,
Evelyn Diaz Cruz
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032377643
ISBN 10: 103237764X
Series: Applied Theatre in Context
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 30 December 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part 1: Igniting Eco-activism 1. Decolonizing the Conversation: Sustainable Development Performances in Egypt 2. Patnaik’s Cyco Theatre in India: Grassroots Environmental and Gender Activism 3. Resisting Ecological Colonialism in the Niger Delta: Indigenous Women and the Beni Kamai Festival Theatre Part 2: Inspiring Playful Interventions 4. Picking up the Sequins: Drag Storytime Performances, Applied Theatre, and Queer Joy 5. Facilitating Gender Awareness with First Drop Theatre: Applied Theatre in Indian Workplaces 6. Yassified Shakespeare: The Case for TikTok as Applied Theatre Part 3: Affecting Responses to Violence 7. Facilitating Afecto in Resistance to Violence: Patricia Ariza’s Work with Female Victims of Colombia’s Armed Conflict 8. Moving Women from the Margins to the Center of History: After/Life and the 1967 Detroit Rebellion 9. No Seriously, Humor is Important Part 4: Reclaiming Bodily Autonomy 10. The Billboard #TrustBlackWomen: Abortion as Self-Care 11. Challenging Ableist Views of Motherhood: Mind The Gap’s Daughters of Fortune 12. The Maternal Ground on Which I Stand: Developing A Solo Performance within the Harris Matriarchy Part 5: Affirming Identity with Youth 13. Negotiating Gender (in)Justice: The Politics of Visibility in the Performing Justice Project 14. Queering Playback Theatre 15. ART Built on Trust and Solidarity: Creating Applied Theatre with Girls and Nonbinary Teens Part 6: Expanding the Definitions 16. Performing Vulnerability, Voicing Resistance: Women’s Spoken Word Poetry in Trinidad and Tobago 17. Tools for Equity and Collaboration 18. The Art of Genderbending: Fighting Hegemonic Gender Ideology with Chinese Martial Arts
Lisa S. Brenner is a professor of theatre at Drew University, where she teaches dramaturgy, theatre history, and applied performance. Her theatre experience includes dramaturgy, devising, directing, and playwriting. Evelyn Diaz Cruz is a professor of theatre at the University of San Diego, where she teaches playwriting, acting, theatre of diversity, and theatre and community. Her theatre experience includes playwriting, directing, and acting.
