LEADER 04878nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910810400403321 005 20240515164626.0 010 $a9786610477289 010 $a1-280-47728-8 010 $a1-84150-859-4 035 $a(CKB)2560000000015256 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000081913 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12007383 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000081913 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10136072 035 $a(PQKB)10707708 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000224504 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11190592 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224504 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10209762 035 $a(PQKB)11337286 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC283047 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL283047 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10019962 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL47728 035 $a(OCoLC)437175868 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000015256 100 $a20000301d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPopular theatre in political culture $eBritain and Canada in focus /$fTim Prentki and Jan Selman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aPortland, OR $cIntellect$d2000 215 $a203 p 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-84150-847-0 311 $a1-84150-015-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-203). 327 $aFront cover -- Preliminaries -- Contents -- Preface -- The Lawnmowers -- 1 Defining Popular Theatre: What is it? -- Where has it come from? -- The South will Rise Again -- Defining the Territory -- A conversation with two practitioners -- Ways of Looking at Popular Theatre -- Risking friendship in a play about landmines -- 2 Intentions -- Agents of Change 2 -- Schools of thought about Community Work -- Methodologies and Involvement Strategies -- Some Thoughts about Techniques -- Popular Theatre,Cultural Awareness and Solidarity: Canada to Nicaragua -- The Interplay of Intention and Popular Theatre Choices -- 3 Contexts -- The Development of Popular Theatre in Britain -- We are One Tribe:the theatre company Blah Blah Blah and Eileen Pennington -- The Development of Popular Theatre in Canada -- From Theatre to Community: Dilemmas of an Estonian theatre community in Vancouver -- 4 Forms of Theatre What Theatre Can Do (and What it Can 't) -- The Psyche Project -- Presentational Theatre -- Participatory Theatre -- In a Fix -Theatre in Health Education in Schools -- Participatory Process -- The Practice of Justice -- 5 Popular Theatre Process -- Producing the Process:Processing the Product -- The Creators -- Becoming One With the Mud - 'Running Through The Devil 's Club ':A Theatrical Exploration in Healing -- Transformative Fictions -- The Nature of Popular Theatre Process -- Participation -- Theatre for Living -- Tightropes of Facilitation -- Shrinkwrapped -- Inventing a Process -- Questioning Some Assumptions about Process -- Negotiating Critical Awareness and Ownership:community drama within a self-advocacy group for adults with learning difficulties -- Community In(ter)vention -- Women's Theatre and Creativity Centre -- Owning (up to)the Process -- Popular Theatre Process is not a Technique -- 6 Dialogue on Issues -- Funding -- Impact Assessment. 327 $aNetworking/Partnerships -- Bibliography -- Endnotes -- Back cover. 330 $aThe first comparative study on the history and practice of popular theatre in Britain and overseas. The fragmentation of social groups in the face of the global mass media has begun to threaten the survival of popular theatre companies. This study traces the development of various types of community theatre, from the '70s to the present day. Integrating a comparative history of popular theatre with the contributions of current, active popular theatre makers, this book will appeal both to the theatrical practitioner and to the academic. 606 $aTheater and society$zCanada 606 $aTheater and society$zGreat Britain 606 $aTheater$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aTheater$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aTheater$xPolitical aspects 606 $aPopular culture$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPopular culture$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aTheater and society 615 0$aTheater and society 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 615 0$aTheater$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory 676 $a792.09410904 700 $aPrentki$b Tim$01597701 701 $aSelman$b Jan$01597702 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810400403321 996 $aPopular theatre in political culture$93919554 997 $aUNINA