Applied Theatre and Racial Justice by Lisa Biggs, Eunice S. F... - 9781032224008

Applied Theatre and Racial JusticeCare, Community, Change\nAuthor(s): Lisa Biggs, Eunice S. Ferreira\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032224008, 978-1032224008\nSynopsis\nApplied Theatre and Racial Justice: Care, Community, Change documents and amplifies lessons from practitioners and scholars who use performance to create models of transformation, collective learning, and liberation.\n\nThe chapters and lively roundtable discussions center knowledge and cultural practices developed by Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latine, people of color, and/or people of the global majority, many of whom were doing this work long before applied theatre became an established field of academic study. Building upon frameworks such as Augusto Boals Theatre of the Oppressed, protest theatre, anti-racist theatre practices, and theatre for social change, the contributors grapple with applied theatre and racial justice from various perspec.