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Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Challenging concepts and understanding of health, wellbeing and illness, it offers insight into different approaches to major health issues through applied performance. With a strong emphasis on the artistry involved in performance-based health responses, situated within a history of the field of practice, the volume is divided into two sections: Part One examines some of the key questions around research and practice in applied performance in health and wellbeing, specifically addressing the different regional challenges that dominate the provision of health care and influence wellbeing: how the ageing population of the global north creates pressure on lifetime healthcare provision, while the global south is dominated by a higher birth rate and a larger population under 15 years old.
Part Two comprises case studies and interviews from international practitioners that reflect the diversity of practices across the world and in particular differences between work in the northern and southern hemispheres. These case studies include a sanitation project in a Hmong refugee camp in Thailand in the 1980s, and the sanitation and rural development projects initiated by the travelling theatre troupes of a number of University theatre departments in Africa - Makerere in Kampala, Uganda; Botswana; Lesotho and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - which began in the 1960s. It considers the emergence of Theatre for Development's use as a health approach, considering the work of Laedza Batanani and the influences of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed.


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Part One Introduction Chapter 1: Challenging understandings of Health, Illness and Wellbeing, by Katharine Low (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK) Chapter 2: The field of applied performance in the realm of health and wellbeing, by Veronica Baxter (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Part Two Chapter 3: Ageing population, death & dying, & dementia care (the UK and North America): Introduction Participatory Theatre and Dementia, by Nicky Hatton (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) "A discussion about death? I feel more alive now", by Sue Mayo (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) & Liz Rothschild Chapter 4: Communicable diseases: TB (South Africa), Malaria (Malawi) and dengue fever (Brazil) Introduction Tuberculosis: The forgotten plague, by Veronica Baxter, Michele Tameris & Amber Abrams (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Dialogical Theatre: Reconsidering the Role of Theatre for Development for Malaria Prevention in Malawi, by Zindaba Chisiza (University of Malawi & University of Leeds) The performance of dengue fever, by AfroReggae (Brazil) Chapter 5: Non-communicable diseases: lifestyle & post-colonial stress disorder (Canada), nutrition & health eating (Denmark), diabetes (the UK) Introduction A good spirit, good mind and good lifestyle: Linking Indigenous perspectives about well-being with Applied Theatre, by Warren Linds & colleagues (Concordia University, Montreal, First Nations University of Canada) Health Theatre for Children, by Dan Grabowski & Jens Aagaard-Hansen (Steno Diabetes Center, Denmark): Creativity: Change in the life styles in South Asian communities, by Geetha Upadhyaya (Kala Sangam): Chapter 6: Sexual Health: practice from South Africa & the Asia-Pacific region. Introduction The individual in sexual health, by Kat Low Performing the Solution: cautions and possibilities when using theatre conventions within HIV prevention programs, by Helen Cahill (University of Melbourne, Australia) Chapter 7: Cancer: research from the UK, US & Australia Introduction Proud Disclosures and Awkward Receptions: Between bodies with cancer and their audiences, by Brian Lobel (University of Chichester, UK) Alive and out there - theatre addressing stigma around cancer in diverse communities in Sydney Australia, by Astrid Perry and Lynne Baker (Multicultural Health Service South Eastern Sydney & Independent researcher/practitioner) Chapter 8: Women's Health and Gender Inequity: experiences from India, Malawi and the Solomon Islands Introduction When Fortaleza meets Shakti: Performing women's well-being in Mexico and India, by Nandita Dinesh (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Women's Drama Group in Malawi targets mothers and children for burns prevention, by Effie Makepeace (Independent researcher/practitioner & Cardboard Citizens, London) Stages of Change: Using theatre to address domestic violence in the Solomon Islands, by Kiara Worth (Freelance practitioner) Chapter 9: Mental Health: Perspectives from South Africa, the UK and Brazil Introduction Between the 'traditional' and the theatrical: Forms and performances of healing depression in South Africa, by oSinethemba Makanya (WISER, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa) Mad Gyms and Kitchens, Bobby Baker and Daily Life Ltd, by Caoimhe McAvinchey (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) & Bobby Baker (artist) Dionysus and Ritual Ecstasy: Madness and Medicine, by Vitor Pordeus (Centre for Culture, Science and Health of the Public Health Office of Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil) Chapter 10: Emerging Health concerns: Environmental health, Addiction, Ebola & Medical Dramaturgy Introduction Storying climate change adaptation: theatre as a research tool in an Ecohealth research process in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, by Nicholas Hamer & Alexandra Sutherland (Rhodes University, USA) Ecological Health in Violeta Luna's NK 603: Action for Performer & e-Maiz, by Lisa Woynarski (Independent researcher) "Dance lifts us up in the world": socially engaged theatre with people in recovery from addiction, by Zoe Zontou (Liverpool Hope University, UK) The Performance of Ebola: A Critical Analysis of Ebola Doctors, by Gloria Samuel (Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria) Generating a Medical Dramaturgy: Live intersections between Intermediality and Health, by Jo Scott (University of Salford) & Deirdre McLaughlin (Arts Educational Schools, London) Conclusion Endnotes Notes on contributors Index


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ISBN-13: 9781472584564
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: January, 2017
Pages: 288
Weight: 652g
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