Ellen W. Kaplan is Professor of Acting and Directing at Smith College, a Fulbright Scholar, Fulbright Senior Specialist, an actress, director, and playwright.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsPART IIntroduction1. Theatre and Social Trauma: Introduction and OverviewEllen W. Kaplan2. The Story Before the Script: Documenting and testifying to trauma histories of incarcerated personsJulie KrieglerPART IIExiles: Loss of Language, Loss of Home3. Weaving Personal Trauma in Video Opera “THE WArDROBE”: Transdisciplinarity and WomanhoodNerina Cocchi4. Lampedusa Beach: A Voice from the Depths of the SeaAnna Botta5. Interview with playwright Lina ProsaAnna Botta and Nerina Cocchi6. The Theater of Arístides Vargas: Antidote Against DeathMaría Estela Harretche7. Bearing Witness to the “Unspeakable”? Poetry writing in the aftermath of the Êzîdî GenocideMairead SmithPART IIITheatre Companies Wrestle with Social Trauma8. A Serpent’s Tale: The Work of El Teatro Indigena de la Sierra TarahumaraGabriel Harrell9. Witness Theater: The Power of Embodied StorytellingSally Grazi-Shatzkes10. Resistance: Theatre as Protest and ReckoningJean-Remy Monnay11. Life Suspended: Theatre as Social Practice in AfghanistanAbdul-Hakim Hashemi Hamidi12. Contemporary Kenyan Theatre as a Response to the Traumas of ColonialismAroji Otieno13. Community as Theatre: Shakespeare Festival in St. Louis and Community PartnershipsMariah L. Richardson14. Interviews with Dominic Dupont and Marjolaine Goldsmith of Theater of WarEllen W. Kaplan15. Trauma and Morality in Classical Greek Drama: Trauma and Authentic Accountability Before the Christian EraLen BerkmanPART IVProcesses of Embodiment16. Interview with Carol GilliganEllen W. Kaplan17. Interview with Trenda LoftinEllen W. Kaplan18. Pedagogies of Embodied Healing: Devised Theatre and Reciprocal EmpathyZoe Rose Kriegler-WenkPART VClosing the Gaps: Social Trauma and Text19. Empathy, Imagination, and Embodiment: Turning Document into FictionAlex Poppe20. Calls to Action: Collaboration across DifferenceCatherine Filloux21. AFTERWORDEllen W. KaplanIndex

Ellen W. Kaplan is Professor of Acting and Directing at Smith College, a Fulbright Scholar, Fulbright Senior Specialist, an actress, director, and playwright.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsPART IIntroduction1. Theatre and Social Trauma: Introduction and OverviewEllen W. Kaplan2. The Story Before the Script: Documenting and testifying to trauma histories of incarcerated personsJulie KrieglerPART IIExiles: Loss of Language, Loss of Home3. Weaving Personal Trauma in Video Opera “THE WArDROBE”: Transdisciplinarity and WomanhoodNerina Cocchi4. Lampedusa Beach: A Voice from the Depths of the SeaAnna Botta5. Interview with playwright Lina ProsaAnna Botta and Nerina Cocchi6. The Theater of Arístides Vargas: Antidote Against DeathMaría Estela Harretche7. Bearing Witness to the “Unspeakable”? Poetry writing in the aftermath of the Êzîdî GenocideMairead SmithPART IIITheatre Companies Wrestle with Social Trauma8. A Serpent’s Tale: The Work of El Teatro Indigena de la Sierra TarahumaraGabriel Harrell9. Witness Theater: The Power of Embodied StorytellingSally Grazi-Shatzkes10. Resistance: Theatre as Protest and ReckoningJean-Remy Monnay11. Life Suspended: Theatre as Social Practice in AfghanistanAbdul-Hakim Hashemi Hamidi12. Contemporary Kenyan Theatre as a Response to the Traumas of ColonialismAroji Otieno13. Community as Theatre: Shakespeare Festival in St. Louis and Community PartnershipsMariah L. Richardson14. Interviews with Dominic Dupont and Marjolaine Goldsmith of Theater of WarEllen W. Kaplan15. Trauma and Morality in Classical Greek Drama: Trauma and Authentic Accountability Before the Christian EraLen BerkmanPART IVProcesses of Embodiment16. Interview with Carol GilliganEllen W. Kaplan17. Interview with Trenda LoftinEllen W. Kaplan18. Pedagogies of Embodied Healing: Devised Theatre and Reciprocal EmpathyZoe Rose Kriegler-WenkPART VClosing the Gaps: Social Trauma and Text19. Empathy, Imagination, and Embodiment: Turning Document into FictionAlex Poppe20. Calls to Action: Collaboration across DifferenceCatherine Filloux21. AFTERWORDEllen W. KaplanIndex

Ellen W. Kaplan is Professor of Acting and Directing at Smith College, a Fulbright Scholar, Fulbright Senior Specialist, an actress, director, and playwright.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsPART IIntroduction1. Theatre and Social Trauma: Introduction and OverviewEllen W. Kaplan2. The Story Before the Script: Documenting and testifying to trauma histories of incarcerated personsJulie KrieglerPART IIExiles: Loss of Language, Loss of Home3. Weaving Personal Trauma in Video Opera “THE WArDROBE”: Transdisciplinarity and WomanhoodNerina Cocchi4. Lampedusa Beach: A Voice from the Depths of the SeaAnna Botta5. Interview with playwright Lina ProsaAnna Botta and Nerina Cocchi6. The Theater of Arístides Vargas: Antidote Against DeathMaría Estela Harretche7. Bearing Witness to the “Unspeakable”? Poetry writing in the aftermath of the Êzîdî GenocideMairead SmithPART IIITheatre Companies Wrestle with Social Trauma8. A Serpent’s Tale: The Work of El Teatro Indigena de la Sierra TarahumaraGabriel Harrell9. Witness Theater: The Power of Embodied StorytellingSally Grazi-Shatzkes10. Resistance: Theatre as Protest and ReckoningJean-Remy Monnay11. Life Suspended: Theatre as Social Practice in AfghanistanAbdul-Hakim Hashemi Hamidi12. Contemporary Kenyan Theatre as a Response to the Traumas of ColonialismAroji Otieno13. Community as Theatre: Shakespeare Festival in St. Louis and Community PartnershipsMariah L. Richardson14. Interviews with Dominic Dupont and Marjolaine Goldsmith of Theater of WarEllen W. Kaplan15. Trauma and Morality in Classical Greek Drama: Trauma and Authentic Accountability Before the Christian EraLen BerkmanPART IVProcesses of Embodiment16. Interview with Carol GilliganEllen W. Kaplan17. Interview with Trenda LoftinEllen W. Kaplan18. Pedagogies of Embodied Healing: Devised Theatre and Reciprocal EmpathyZoe Rose Kriegler-WenkPART VClosing the Gaps: Social Trauma and Text19. Empathy, Imagination, and Embodiment: Turning Document into FictionAlex Poppe20. Calls to Action: Collaboration across DifferenceCatherine Filloux21. AFTERWORDEllen W. KaplanIndex