Theatre of good intentions : challenges and hopes for theatre and social change / Dani Snyder-Young.
"Much has been written about theatre's capacity to create social change. Theatre of Good Intentions: Challenges and Hopes for Theatre and Social Change, however, looks at some of the reasons why achieving such goals is hard; examining what theatre can and can't do. It critiques the li...
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Houndmills, Basingtoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
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- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Why Do We Want to Use Theatre to Make Social Change?
- PART I: IMPACTING PARTICIPANTS
- 1. Theatre of Good Intentions
- 2. Participatory Theatre and the Problem of Dominant Discourse
- 3. Embedded in Institutions, Beholden to Institutional Forces
- 4. Publishing under Apartheid: OUP in South Africa
- PART II: IMPACTING AUDIENCES
- 4. Catharsis, Critical Distance, and Change
- 5. Spectatorship, community, and 'otherness'
- 6. Responding to Contemporary Events in an Era of Instant Gratification
- CONCLUSION: Real Change in the Real World.