This book addresses the rarely examined expertise of applied theatre artists, aiming to shed light on their particular skills and qualities. Kay Hepplewhite, 2020.
Risk, Participation and Performance Practice: Critical Vulnerabilities in a Precarious World
This book explores a range of contemporary performance practices (with a focus on participatory theatre) that engage spectators physically and emotionally through active engagement and critical involvement. Alice O'Grady (ed), 2017
Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth: Performing Possibility
Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth argues that theatre artists must re-imagine how and why they facilitate performance practices with young people, and presents practitioners, scholars, and educators with innovative approaches to devising and performing digital stories. Megan Alrutz, 2014
Partnerships for Learning: A guide to evaluating arts education projects
A very useful step by step guide to all aspects of participatory project evaluation. Felicity Woolf, 1999.
Performing Impact
A scoping study of the ways in which community theatre understands and evaluates its work. University of Nottingham, 2013.
The role of digital engagements in place based projects
Case study research coming out of the Creative People and Places programmes experience of going digital during the pandemic. CPP, 2020
Quality Principles
A publication to guide participatory artists in thinking about the quality of their work. ArtWorks Cymru, 2019.
Applied and Interactive Theatre Guide
A repository of information and resources connected to applied and participatory theatre practice. Toni Sant, 2020
Creative Time Summit
Conference proceedings, recorded sessions and materials from the last 10 years of this USA socially engaged arts event. Creative Time, 2020