Overview
Applied Theatre: Facilitation is the first publication that
directly explores the facilitator's role within a range of socially
engaged theatre and community theatre settings. The book offers a new
theoretical framework for understanding critical facilitation in
contemporary dilemmatic spaces and features a range of writings and
provocations by international practitioners and experienced facilitators
working in the field.
Part One offers an introduction to the
concept, role and practice of facilitation and its applications in
different contexts and cultural locations. It offers a conceptual
framework through which to understand the idea of critical facilitation:
a political practice that that involves a critical (and self-critical)
approach to pedagogies, practices (doing and performing), and resilience
in dilemmatic spaces. Part Two illuminates the diversity in the field
of facilitation in applied theatre through offering multiple voices,
case studies, theoretical positions and contexts. These are drawn from
Australia, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, India, Israel/Palestine, Rwanda, the
United Kingdom and North America, and they apply a range of aesthetic
forms: performance, process drama, forum, clowning and playmaking. Each
chapter presents the challenge of facilitation in a range of cultural
contexts with communities whose complex histories and experiences have
led them to be disenfranchised socially, culturally and/or economically.