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The Playwright in Residence: A Community's Storyteller

Amanda Stuart Fisher
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2004) 48 (3 (183)): 135–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/1054204041667712
Published: 01 September 2004
Abstract
What are the ways that collective storytelling becomes a community-forming activity, where individual and communal identity is negotiated and explored? What are the interactive exchanges between the storyteller and community?
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Taking Hostages: Staging Human Rights

Paul Heritage
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2004) 48 (3 (183)): 96–106.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/1054204041667695
Published: 01 September 2004
Abstract
Inside a São Paulo prison, theatre workers and prisoners stage performances proclaiming human rights in order to combat the dehumanizing conditions that feed abuses within the prison system.
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Staging Prisons: Performance, Activism, and Social Bodies

Peter Caster
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2004) 48 (3 (183)): 107–116.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/1054204041667631
Published: 01 September 2004
Abstract
“Staged activism” is social protest using the tactics of performance, while “activist performance” is conventional stage drama deliberately performed as part of a particular political project. What are the advantages and drawbacks of each?
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Here We Are: Social Theatre and Some Open Questions about Its Developments

Guglielmo Schininà
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2004) 48 (3 (183)): 17–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/1054204041667659
Published: 01 September 2004
Abstract
One of the leaders of the movement considers some of the theoretical and historical sources and themes of social theatre as an instrument of action and healing.
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Whose Play Is It?: The Issue of Authorship/Ownership in Israeli Community-Based Theatre

Shulamith Lev-Aladgem
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2004) 48 (3 (183)): 117–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/1054204041667721
Published: 01 September 2004
Abstract
Community-based theatre in Israel is a means for individual and social empowerment. But who really owns these theatrical means of production—the community, the artists, or the sponsors?
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Art in a Democracy

Dudley Cocke
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2004) 48 (3 (183)): 165–173.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/1054204041667677
Published: 01 September 2004
Abstract
Reflecting on 25 years of making grassroots art, Cocke asks: How can artists relate to tradition, pursue intercultural collaborations, build diverse audiences, and help communities discover and perform their stories?
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ACTing: The pandies' theatre of Delhi

Sanjay Kumar
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2004) 48 (3 (183)): 79–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/1054204041667703
Published: 01 September 2004
Abstract
A New Delhi feminist theatre of children, women, slum-dwellers, and the homeless named after the first Indian to kill his British superior in the 1857 uprising against British rule.
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Badal Sircar: Scripting a Movement

Shayoni Mitra
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2004) 48 (3 (183)): 59–78.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/1054204041667730
Published: 01 September 2004
Abstract
A pioneer of Indian street theatre, environmental theatre, and poor theatre continues his work in and around Kolkata. Mitra considers Sircar's life-path from the 1960s into the new century.
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“Far Away, So Close”: Psychosocial and Theatre Activities with Serbian Refugees

Guglielmo Schininà
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2004) 48 (3 (183)): 32–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/1054204041667686
Published: 01 September 2004
Abstract
Making creative activities for children, adolescents, and elderly refugees living in the collective centers of war-torn southern Serbia proved to be no easy task.
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Social Theatre in Bangladesh

Nazmul Ahsan
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2004) 48 (3 (183)): 50–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/1054204041667776
Published: 01 September 2004
Abstract
Using improvisation based on the Bengali popular indigenous performance forms of jatra and khaner gan, the theatre group LOSAUK of Bangladesh raises social awareness and advocates change.
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Digging up Stories: An Archaeology of Theatre in War

James Thompson
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2004) 48 (3 (183)): 150–164.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/1054204041667749
Published: 01 September 2004
Abstract
What happens when the theatre is implicated in the horrors of the situation it displays? Who can judge the truth of one story against another? Should we champion a narrative that denies the rhetoric of war, and deny the narrative that champions the need for war?
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Why “Social Theatre”?

James Thompson, Richard Schechner
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2004) 48 (3 (183)): 11–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/1054204041667767
Published: 01 September 2004
Abstract
Deploying social theatre in TDR is performative—as likely to bring about as it is to describe. Social theatre is not a meeting of two distinct unrelated wholes. It is the dynamic meeting of theatre and social work, an interaction that can change both disciplines.
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