'Applied theatre' refers to theatre that happens outside of the artistic/theatrical setting, often in a community or educational context, mostly in the service of some kind of social change. This reader brings together classic texts on the subject, written by Chomsky, Bakhtin, B…
Jan Cohen-Cruz presents a combined analysis & workbook to examine 'socially engaged performance'. He offers a range of practical approaches, exercises, & principles for using performance to engage in a variety of social & artistic projects.
Performance Studies' includes discussion of the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games as well as the performances of every day life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the arts, anthropology, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy and aesthet…
