The Routledge companion to theatre and young people /
edited by Selina Busby, Kelly Freebody, and Charlene Rajendran.
- London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
- 1 online resource.
- Routledge theatre and performance companions .
Introduction / Political Utterances -- Bodyliness in European applied theatre projects: reflecting on the importance of inviting the body to the workshop's room / On the importance of big umbrellas: applied theatre as a hopeful practice in precarious times / Becoming giants: towards Oceania through mastery of bodily skills and techniques / Navigating adultism in critical youth theatre practice / We are still here and why we do theatre / The manipulation of Mowgli: performing youth, deconstructing racialization, and tracing imperialism in the jungle book / Shakespeare youth performance festivals as spaces for postcolonial restorying / What defines the dramatugry of young peoples theatre (YPT) and who defines it? / Performing violence, devising futures? performance with and by young people in Rwanda and Uganda / Theatre to raise a village / Scotland's youth theatre and drama sector / Critical positioning -- Arena theatre company: making theatre with young people as a methodology for making theatre for young people / Theatre makes me think again / 'Home grown' productions for their own young people: researching community theatre groups in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Re-thinking "theatre" during social distancing: how cosmic kids yoga got us through a pandemic / Theatre of hope: PaGaSa in the praxis of youth advocates through theatre arts (YATTA) / Trials and tribulations: creating theatre for young audiences with or without youth / At the water's edge: theatre as a space for reflection / Between past and future: Edward Bond and the representation of adolescent 'crisis' / Theatre: the humanizing social metaphor / Access to theatre for young people in India: Thespo's journey through change and challenge from 1999 to 2021 / Pedagogic frames -- "Writing what matters to me" : voicing latinx youth concerns through theatre scriptwriting / Let them speak: devised theatre as a culturally responsive methodology for secondary students / A chain of creative bombs / Botanical drama - theatre for young people / "But damn it, without the illusion, what would man have been then?" / To the syllabus and beyond: young people learning through theatre-making in Australian schools / A dialogue across the circle: creating 'authentic' theatre for achievement standards in New Zealand secondary schools / Talking about being in youth theatre / Artist- and teacher-supported extra-curricular theatre in secondary schools: exploring the benefits of a 'betwixt and between' youth theatre form / Making space: a community-engaged youth theatre practice grounded in care / Applying performance -- Dancing towards dreams / 'What does transformative justice look like?': clean break theatre company and the young artists development programme / SExT: sex education by theatre- empowering youth from a community where sex is taboo to take centre stage / Theatre for learning expression and empathy from the margins / 'I do the story I tell' - theatre-making for children living on the margins in Singapore / United we stand? devised theatre for social change with youth in a tumultuous America / All the stage is a world: prospects for virtual reality theatre with young people / A life-changing journey in the Karoo, South Africa / Young people's theatre in Thailand: a performance ecology approach / Imagining alternative futures for marginalised communities in Taiwan through devised theatre with university students in educational and community settings / Moments of truth / Conclusion: an open letter to the young theatre practitioners / Selina Busby, Kelly Freebody, and Charlene Rajendran -- Gabriel Vivas- Mart̕nez -- Kathleen Gallagher -- Peilin Liang -- Matthew Elliott -- Mardin Mahmoudpour -- Asif Majid -- Jennifer Kitchen -- Janet Pillai -- Hope Azeda, Lillian Mbabazi, and Bobby Smith -- Patrick Alesana, Irene Folau, Agnes Milford, and Linda Robertson- Johansson -- William D. Barlow and Douglas Irvine -- Meg Upton, Richard Sallis, Christian Leavesley, and Jolyon James -- Kirubael Alebachew -- Emma Durden -- Dani Snyder-Young, with Des Bennett, Anna Birnholz, Kaitlyn Fiery, Hannah Lecinson, and Devon Whitney -- Dessa Quesada Palm and Jazmin Llana -- David Montgomery, Gina L. Grandi, Teresa A. Fisher, and Jim DeVivo -- Theo Chen -- Martin Heaney -- The imagined child onstage: theatrical depictions of parental grief during transition for youth on the autism spectrum / Molly Mattaini -- Sanjoy Ganguly -- Srishti Ray and Srividya Baker -- Claudia G. Pineda, Rossella Santagata, and Joseph Jenkins -- Jonathan P. Jones -- Tom Anderson -- The artistic and pedagogical experience at the Casa do Teatro, Brazil / L̕gia Maria Camargo Silva Cortez -- Justine Marie Bruÿre -- Stig A. Eriksson -- Katy Walsh and Christine Hatton -- Jane Isobel Luton and Holly Charlotte Luton -- Ella Sutton and Kate Sutton -- Jennifer Penton, Julie Dunn, Linda Hassall, Natalie Lazaroo, and Adrianne Jones -- Alysha Herrmann, Claire Glenn, and Sarah Peters -- Helen Nicholson -- Sarah Bartley -- Shira B. Taylor -- Kisan Salbul and Sana Shaikh -- Jennifer Wong -- Elizabeth Brendel Horn and Tonya Hays -- Jennifer Beckett and Paul Rae -- Adrian Tony -- Pornrat Damrhung -- Wan-Jung Wang -- John O'Toole -- Syed Jamil Ahmed. Part 1. Reflection 1. Reflection 2. Reflection 3. Reflection 4. Part 2. Reflection 5. Reflection 6. Reflection 7. Part 3. Reflection 8. Reflection 9. Reflection 10. Part 4. Reflection 11. Reflection 12. Reflection 13. Reflection 14.
"This Companion interrogates the relationship between theatre and youth from a global perspective, taking in performances and theatre made by, for, and about young people. These different but interrelated forms of theatre are addressed through four critical themes that underpin the ways in which analysis of contemporary theatre in relation to young people can be framed: political utterances - exploring the varied ways theatre becomes a platform for political utterance as a process of dialogic thinking and critical imagining; critical positioning - examining youth theatre work that navigates the sensitive, dynamic and complex terrains in which young people live and perform; pedagogic frames - outlining a range of contexts and programmes in which young people learn to make and understand theatre that reflects their artistic capacities and aesthetic strategies; applying performance - discussing a range of projects and companies whose work has been influential in the development of youth theatre within specific contexts. Providing critical, research-informed and research-based discussions on the intersection between young people, their representation, and their participation in theatre, this is a landmark text for students, scholars and practitioners whose work and thinking involves theatre and young people"--