Applied theater (Topical Term)

Work cat: Skeiker, F. Syrian refugees, applied theater, workshop facilitation, and stories, 2020: CIP galley (Applied theater entails planning, executing, and evaluating theater workshops for specific communities with the ultimate goal being to open a dialogue about the particular issues the community is grappling with. The author explains that the idea of leading a workshop solely for the purpose of empowering the participants, without thinking about a final product or a public presentation, was uncommon before the development of the notion of theater being "applied"; the author describes his applied theater practice as a tool to address refugee issues of displacement, trauma, adjustment and psychological well-being and split community belonging) (DLC)2020040430

"Applied theatre: history, practice, and place in American higher education," by Joseph A. Obermuetter (submitted to Virginia Commonwealth University, 2013, MFA thesis), in scholarscompass.vcu.edu, 10-08-20: (Applied theatre: is an umbrella term including many types of theatre; many academic programs have been developed for applied theatre practice, beginning in the 1960's; as Helen Nicholson has stated: "What is emphasized in applied theatre is its concern to encourage people to use the experience of participating in theatre to move beyond what they already know"; applied theatre is an application of theatre in the real world (or outside traditional theatrical contents), that can be observed; specific criterion exists under the applied theatre umbrella term: participation; outreach; service; intention; transformation)

"Applied theatre: an introduction," by Tim Prentki and Sheila Preston, in The applied theatre reader (online), 2009: (Applied theatre has emerged in recent years as a term describing a broad set of theatrical practices and creative processes that take participants and audiences beyond the scope of conventional, mainstream theatre into the realm of a theatre that is responsive to ordinary people and their stories, local settings, and priorities; the work often but not always, happens in informal spaces, in non-traditional venues in a variety of geographical and social settings: schools, day centres, the street, prisons, village halls, an estate or any other location that might be specific or relevant to the interests of a community; applied theatre usually works in contexts where the work created and performed has a specific resonance with its participants and its audiences and often, to different degrees, involves them in it; it is theatre "for" a community, and "by" a community; the term defies any one definition and includes a multitude of intentions, aesthetic processes and transactions with its participants)

"What is applied theatre?" from a course description created by the Critical Research Unit in Applied Theatre, University of Auckland, (Auckland.ac.nz/education) October 9, 2020: (Applied theatre is generally accepted as an umbrella term, embracing a wide range of theatre practices that share an intentionality to provoke or shape social change, including: theatre in education, theatre for development, youth theatre, disability theatre, museum theatre, reminiscence theatre and prison theatre; central to these theatrical movements has been the development of new sets of relationships between actors and the audience. The onus of a participatory theatre is on creating actors not for the stage but actors for, on and with the world.)