This edited collection gathers together leading voices in theatre and performance studies to debate the politics of participation and find points of connection across a range of performative forms – including community theatre, live art, applied theatre, one-to-one performance and marathon running. Arranged in three sections, 'Recognising Participation', 'Labours of Participation', and 'Authoring Participation', the book raises productive questions about how and why audiences are encouraged to participate in creating the artistic work. This intersection, the authors suggest, blurs the boundaries between producer and consumer, promising modes of engagement that are at once political, social and aesthetic. Applying theoretical ideas to concrete discussions of practice, this is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of applied theatre, political and socially-engaged theatre, participatory theatre making and performance studies.
Anna Harpin is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick, UK, and is also a theatre maker with her company Idiot Child. Helen Nicholson is Professor of Theatre and Performance at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, where she specialises in applied and participatory theatre and contemporary performance.
1. Performance and Participation; Anna Harpin and Helen NicholsonPART I: RECOGNISING PARTICIPATION2. The Cultivation of Entangled Listening: An Ensemble of More-than-Human Participants; Deirdre Heddon3. Renegotiating Immersive Participation in Analogue's Re-enactments; Liam Jarvis4. Mute Stages: Performing Silent Lives; Anna Harpin5. Participation, Recognition and Political Space; Colette ConroyPART II: LABOURS OF PARTICIPATION6. Affective Labours of Cultural Participation; Helen Nicholson7. Sometimes the Quieter the Revolution, the Louder it is Heard: Crafting, Protest and Gender; Dawn Fowler8. 'Tell no-one': Secret Cinema and the Paradox of Secrecy; Adam AlstonPART III: AUTHORING PARTICIPATION9. The Agency of Environment: Participation Citizenship and Multi-Story Water; Stephen Bottoms10. One Step Forward, One Step Back: Resisting the Forensic Turn; James Frieze11. Authority, Authorisation and Authorship: Participation in Community Plays in Belfast; Alison JeffersBibliographyIndex.
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