Six years after its initial publication, Applied Theatre returns with a second edition. As the first book to assist practitioners and students to develop critical frameworks for implementing their own theatrical projects, it served as a vital addition to this area of growing international interest, winning the Distinguished Book of the Year award from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. Editors Monica Prendergast and Juliana Saxton have updated the book to reflect shifts in practice over the last few years in the world of applied theater. With their background in drama education and pedagogy, the contributors offer introductory chapters and dozens of case studies on applied theater projects around the globe. This new edition of Applied Theatre will encourage students and practitioners to acquire a deeper, more concrete understanding of the field and its best practice. “Editors Prendergast and Saxton have, in their second edition of Applied Theatre , created an invaluable repository of examples of various types of Applied Theater from all over the world. Prendergast and Saxton purposefully offer readers the opportunity to pull back the curtain and learn from the successes, mistakes, and sometime failures of seasoned Applied Theater practitioners. . . . The succinct and concise method Prendergast and Saxton use to define terms, methodologies, models, and motifs would be of significant use to the new practitioner looking to learn more about and starting to facilitate Applied Theater. For the more seasoned practitioner it acts as a refresher in the core concepts in our field, and an inspiration regarding the work our colleagues around world are doing, using theater to make their communities and the world more compassionate, just, and critically engaged.” ― PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research Monica Prendergast is associate professor of drama education at the University of Victoria. She is the author of many books, including Drama, Theatre and Performance Education in Canada and Staging the Not-Yet: How Dramatic Ensemble Creates Utopian Space . Juliana Saxton is professor emeritus in the Department of Theatre at the University of Victoria and the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. Applied Theatre International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice By Monica Prendergast, Juliana Saxton Intellect Ltd Copyright © 2016 Intellect Ltd All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-78320-625-4 Contents Acknowledgments, xiii, Preface: What is this book about?, xix, Part One: Theories, History and Practices of Applied Theatre, Chapter One: Theories and History of Applied Theatre, Chapter Two: Practices of Applied Theatre, Chapter Three: Story, Storytelling and Applied Theatre, Part Two: The Landscape of Applied Theatre, Chapter Four: Popular Theatre, Chapter Five: Documentary Theatre, Chapter Six: Theatre in Education (TIE), Chapter Seven: Theatre of the Oppressed (TO), Part Three: The Locations of Applied Theatre, Chapter Eight: Theatre in Health Education (THE), Chapter Nine: Theatre for Development (TfD), Chapter Ten: Prison Theatre, Chapter Eleven: Community-Based Theatre, Chapter Twelve: Museum Theatre, Chapter Thirteen: Reminiscence Theatre, Part Four: Challenges for Practice, Chapter Fourteen: Participation, Aesthetics, Ethics and Assessment, Afterword: Reflection, 247, Bibliography, 251, Author Index, 269, CHAPTER 1 Theories, History and Practices of Applied Theatre 1.1 Where do we find applied theatre? Popular Theatre: Fashionable Immigration is a University of Exeter popular theatre project that "attempt[s] to address the many misperceptions about immigration" (Price, 2011, p. 85). The play deals with a Polish girl named Anya who moves to Britain in search of work. She is exploited by an employer who confiscates her passport and forces her to work long hours under threat of being deported. Two laid-off local workers come to Anya's aid and help to rescue her from this situation. This show is performed in three different ways: as seventeenth-century commedia dellarte, as a puppet show with giant 12-foot-high puppets and as a musical. Each of these popular theatre versions is assessed for its impact on audiences (Price, 2011). Documentary Theatre: A South African community-based documentary theatre project, Soil & Ash, gathers stories from those affected by a proposed coal mine being built in their community (Dennill, 2014). The mine owners are allegedly conducting bribes and other tactics that are fracturing the community's sense of solidarity. The theatre project retells actual lived experiences and verbatim accounts of how the mine is affecting people, and how they feel it may effect them in the future. To do this, we cannot rely on the traditional theatre process in which stories are imagined or interpreted by a few separate people outside of the situation, and th