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Community Theatre and AIDS

Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), xii, 179 pp.

Contains 21 illustrations, bibliogr. pp. 169-176, index

Series: Studies in International Performance

ISBN 978-0-230-30043-9 (eBook)

"Applying research into assessments of community theatre, epidemiology, and young people's shared and private stories using a wide range of methodologies, this book explores the potential efficacy of community theatre to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania with reference to several other comparable sites in Africa." (Publisher description)
Introduction, 1
1 HIV Prevention as Community-Based Theatre, 33
2 The Performativity of Community-Based Theatre, 56
3 The Social Drama of Backstage Discourse and Performance, 79
4 A Deadly Paradox: Assessing the Success/Failure of Community-Based Theatre against AIDS, 123
Appendixes, 149