PART I.
1 Applied Theatre: An Introduction / Tim Prentki & Sheila Preston, 9
II. POETICS OF REPRESENTATION
2 Introduction to Poetics of representation / Tim Prentki, 19
3 Rabelais and His World / Mikhail Bakhtin, 22
4 Brecht on Theatre / John Willett, 28
5 Clown, Opera, the Atomic Bomb and The Classroom / Julie Salverson, 33
6 Provoking Intervention / Adrian Jackson, 41
7 'Lift Your Mask': Geese Theatre company in performance / Andy Watson, 47
8 Doing Time: A personal and practical account of making performance work in prisons [in Brazil and UK] / Lois Weaver, 55
III. ETHICS OF REPRESENTATION
9 Introduction to Ethics of Representation / Sheila Preston, 65
10 Commentary on The War Plays / Edward Bond, 70
11 On the Political / Chantal Mouffe, 77
12 Choosing the margin as a space of radical openness / bell hooks, 80
13 Representing the Other / Sue Wilkinson & Celia Kitzinger, 87
14 'Fit for a child'? Artistry and didacticism in a Theatre in Health Education Programme for young children / Joe Winston, 94
15 'You just made the blueprint to suit yourselves': A Theatre-based Health Research Project in Lungwena, Malawi / David Kerr, 100
16 Bearing Witness: (re) positioning the playwright in the telling of other peoples stories of trauma / Amanda Stuart-Fisher, 108
17 The ends of Applied Theatre: incidents of cutting and chopping [Sri Lanka] / James Thompson, 116
IV. PARTICIPATION
18 Introduction to Participation / Sheila Preston, 127
19 Theatre of the Oppressed / Augusto Boal, 130
20 Selections from the Prison Notebooks / Antomio Gramsci, 138
21 Participation / Majid Rahnema, 141
22 Participation for Liberation or Incrimination? [Rwanda] / Ananda Breed, 148
23 Altogether now? Reconsidering the merits of participation in child-rights theatre [Sudan] / Paul Moclair, 155
24 The complexity and challenge of participation in North Liverpool: a case study of Collective Encounters' Living Place Project / Sarah Thornton, 163
25 The use of dialogical approaches for community theatre by the group Nós do Morro, in the Vidigal favela of Rio de Janeiro / Marina Henriques Coutinho, Marcia Pompeo Nogueira, 170
V. INTERVENTION
26 Introduction to Intervention / Tim Prentki, 181
27 Profit over People / Naom Chomsky, 184
28 When People Play People / Zakes Mda, 192
29Drama as a Process for Change / Dorothy Heathcote, 200
30 Theatre as Communal Work: Intervention in Rural Communities [United Kingdom] / John Somers, 207
31 Made to measure? A critical interrogation of applied theatre as intervention with young offenders in the UK / Jenny Hughes & Simon Ruding, 217
32 Flight Paths: Challenging racism in Sunderland and Newcastle / Kathleen McCreery, 226
33 The Performance of Trauma: Moving On project, Australia. / Penny Bundy, 233
34 Playback Theatre in Burundi: Can Theatre Trascend the Gap? / Jonathan Fox, 241
VI. BORDER-CROSSING
35 Introduction to Border Crossing / Tim Prentki, 251
36 Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of education / Henry Giroux, 254
37 Decolonising the Mind / Ngugi WaThiongo, 261
38 Re-Locating Memory: Performance, Reminiscence, and Communities of Diaspora / Helen Nicholson, 268
39 'Is this the play?' Applied Theatre in a pupil referral unit / Caoimhe McAvinchey, 276
40 'My Peoples Blood': Mobilising Rural, Aboriginal populations in Canada around issues of HIV / Jane Heather, 283
41 Transgressing Borders in Portland, Maine / Jan Cohen-Cruz, 291
VII. TRANSFORMATION
42 Introduction to Transformation / Sheila Preston, 303
43 Theatre Poems and Songs / Edward Bond, 307
44 Pedagogy of the Oppressed / Paulo Freire, 310
45 Synthetic Culture and Development / Renato Constantino, 314
46 'Are We There Yet': On the road to safer sex through interactive theatre / Jan Selman, 319
47 'The Mothership': Sustainability and transformation in Clean Break Theatre Company / Anna Herrman, 328
48 'Whose got the Power': Performance and self advocacy for people with learning disabilities / Liselle Terret, 336
49 Sanctions and Survival Politics: Zimbabwean Community Theater in a Time of Hardship / Dale Byam, 345
50 Child Rights Theatre for Development with disadvantaged and excluded children in South Asia and Africa / Michael Etherton, 354
VIII. APPLIED THEATRE AND GLOBALISATION
51 Applied Theatre in a Global Village / Tim Prentki, 363