Communities, Performance and Practice

Kerrie Schaefer has a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of Sydney, Australia. Before relocating to the UK in 2007, she was Lecturer in Drama at the University of Newcastle, NSW. She is currently an Associate Professor in Drama at the University of Exeter, UK.

• 1. Preface - Enacting Community.- 2. Historical and theoretical perspectives on community-based theatre and performance practice.- 3. acta Community Theatre, the ‘cycle of engagement’ and a ‘community of [community theatre] practice’.- 4. Yijala Yala – Creative Producing Cultural Livelihoods in the Pilbara.- 5.  The Crossings (part of the Islands of Milwaukee): the agency of older bodies enacting pedestrian crossings.- 6.  Articulating a community-engagement methodology in an authoritarian communitarian democracy - Drama Box’s IgnorLAND Of Its Time performing the ‘HDB nation’ at Bukit Ho Swee..- 7. Epilogue.