Applied Theatre: Facilitation

Sheila Preston is Head of Performing Arts at the University of East London, UK. She is a practising mediator and drama facilitator and has worked in a range of settings locally and internationally, including work with young people, with adults in mental health settings, and in development contexts. She co-edited with Tim Prentki The Applied Theatre Reader (2009) and is co-editor, with Micheal Balfour, of Bloomsbury Methuen Drama's Applied Theatre series.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction to Facilitation Part 1: A Conceptual Framework 1 Pedagogies: Critical Facilitation 2 Practices: Doing and Performing 3 Resilience in Dilemmatic Spaces Part 2: Case Studies: Pedagogies, Practices & Contexts, 4 Send in the Clowns (Paul Murray, University of East London, UK)5 All Our Stress Goes in the River: The Drama Workshop as a (Playful) Space for Reconciliation (Sarah Woodland, Griffith University, Australia)6 Re-Positioning The Learning-Disabled Performing Arts Student as Critical Facilitator (Liselle Terret, University of East London, UK)7 The Art of Facilitation: ‘Tain’t what you do (it’s the way that you do it).’ (Michael Balfour, Griffith University, Australia)8 More than a Sum of Parts? Responsivity and Respond-ability in Applied Theatre Practitioner Expertise (Kay Hepplewhite, Northumbria University, UK)9 The Artist as Questioner: Why We Do What We Do (Ananda Breed, University of East London, UK)10 ‘Ain’t you got a right to the tree of life’: Facilitators’ Intentions Toward Community, Integrity and Justice (Cynthia Cohen, Brandeis University, USA)Afterword BibliographyIndex

An excellent text for introducing undergraduate students to the principles and complexities of applied theatre facilitation. Highly recommended for anyone interested in how to practice and think about educational drama.