Staging Social Justice
Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre
Nonfiction, Entertainment, Theatre, Performing Arts
| Author: | Flint, Carly Halse, Megan Hanley, Cristina Pippa, Diane Finnerty, Lindsey Barlag Thornton, Amanda Dunne Acevedo, Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, Bryan Moore, Tracey Calhoun, David Kaye, Susan V. Iverson, Michael Ellison, Bernardo Solano, Paula Weston Solano, Xanthia Angel Walker, Selina Busby, Catherine McNamara, Kathleen Juhl, Lindsey Smith, Rod Ainsworth, Jude Pippen, Rebecca Root, Erasmo Tacconelli, Jessy Ardern, Brooke Kiener, Laura Reed Goodson, Natalya Brusilovsky, Crystal Grills | ISBN: | 9780809332397 |
| Publisher: | Southern Illinois University Press | Publication: | June 3, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Southern Illinois University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Flint, Carly Halse, Megan Hanley, Cristina Pippa, Diane Finnerty, Lindsey Barlag Thornton, Amanda Dunne Acevedo, Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, Bryan Moore, Tracey Calhoun, David Kaye, Susan V. Iverson, Michael Ellison, Bernardo Solano, Paula Weston Solano, Xanthia Angel Walker, Selina Busby, Catherine McNamara, Kathleen Juhl, Lindsey Smith, Rod Ainsworth, Jude Pippen, Rebecca Root, Erasmo Tacconelli, Jessy Ardern, Brooke Kiener, Laura Reed Goodson, Natalya Brusilovsky, Crystal Grills |
| ISBN: | 9780809332397 |
| Publisher: | Southern Illinois University Press |
| Publication: | June 3, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Southern Illinois University Press |
| Language: | English |
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Fringe Benefits, an award-winning theatre company, collaborates with schools and communities to create plays that promote constructive dialogue about diversity and discrimination issues. Staging Social Justice is a groundbreaking collection of essays about Fringe Benefits’ script-devising methodology and their collaborations in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. The anthology also vividly describes the transformative impact of these creative initiatives on participants and audiences. By reflecting on their experiences working on these projects, the contributing writers—artists, activists and scholars—provide the readerwith tools and inspiration to create their own theatre for social change.
“Contributors to this big-hearted collection share Fringe Benefits’ play devising process, and a compelling array of methods for measuring impact, approaches to aesthetics (with humor high on the list), coalition and community building, reflections on safe space, and acknowledgement of the diverse roles needed to apply theatre to social justice goals. The book beautifully bears witness to both how generative Fringe Benefits’ collaborations have been for participants and to the potential of engaged art in multidisciplinary ecosystems more broadly.”—Jan Cohen-Cruz, editor of Public: A Journal of Imagining America
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Fringe Benefits, an award-winning theatre company, collaborates with schools and communities to create plays that promote constructive dialogue about diversity and discrimination issues. Staging Social Justice is a groundbreaking collection of essays about Fringe Benefits’ script-devising methodology and their collaborations in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. The anthology also vividly describes the transformative impact of these creative initiatives on participants and audiences. By reflecting on their experiences working on these projects, the contributing writers—artists, activists and scholars—provide the readerwith tools and inspiration to create their own theatre for social change.
“Contributors to this big-hearted collection share Fringe Benefits’ play devising process, and a compelling array of methods for measuring impact, approaches to aesthetics (with humor high on the list), coalition and community building, reflections on safe space, and acknowledgement of the diverse roles needed to apply theatre to social justice goals. The book beautifully bears witness to both how generative Fringe Benefits’ collaborations have been for participants and to the potential of engaged art in multidisciplinary ecosystems more broadly.”—Jan Cohen-Cruz, editor of Public: A Journal of Imagining America
