Case Studies: Centre for Excellence in Participatory Theatre Showcase
A platform for participatory theatre artists, organisations and activists to showcase their work - a series of 5 minute recordings of their presentations that demonstrates the great breadth and diversity of work across the UK.
The Space
A comprehensive resource with advice and guidance to help with everything from creative development and production, to live streaming and performance capture, finding an audience online and measuring success.
Theatres of Learning Disability
This is the first scholarly book to focus exclusively on theatre and learning disability as theatre, rather than advocacy or therapy and realigns the - hitherto unvoiced - assumptions that underpin such practice and proposes that learning disabled artists have [...]
Case Study: Common Ground, Congo
This short film highlights Common Ground's approach to using participatory theatre to aid conflict resolution in neighbourhoods in Congo.(4:18) Location: Congo
Digital Theatre: How is it working
A conversation of theatre makers discussing pivoting their work on line and their resulting learning. Hosted by Intermission.
Case Study: Untold stories: Cardboard Citizens’ forum theatre at homeless hostels
Cardboard Citizens is a theatre company that works with homeless and marginalized people using Augusto Boal's forum theatre. Every year they tour London's hostels, day centres empowering homeless people to rehearse changes in their lives. This short film is an [...]
From Boal to Jana Sanskriti: Practice and Principles
This fully illustrated book by the Bengali company's founder and artistic director collects and explains their programme of workshop exercises, placing them in the context of their social and activist work; and includes interviews with Ganguly unpicking key aspects of [...]
Creative Network
Creative Lives works with communities, organisations, policy-makers, funders and creative individuals as a voice for positive change, to improve and expand the landscape in which creative participation can take place. It hosts art-form specific networks, including Theatre.
Case Study: Theatre Of The Oppressed NYC
Theatre of the Oppressed NYC partners with community members at local organizations to form theatre troupes. These troupes devise and perform plays based on their challenges confronting economic inequality, racism, and other social, health and human rights injustices. This film [...]
Jana Sanskriti: Forum Theatre and Democracy in India
This book talks about relationship, democracy and collective action that theatre can engender and how theatre can script power within and outside us. Jana Sanskriti was founded over 20 years ago as a small theatre group in West Bengal. Now [...]
