Applied Theatre: Facilitation Pedagogies, Practices, Resilience

Applied Theatre: Facilitation is the first publication that directly explores the facilitator's role within a range of socially engaged theatre and community theatre settings. The book offers a new theoretical framework for understanding critical facilitation in contemporary dilemmatic spaces and features a range of writings and provocations by international practitioners and experienced facilitators working in the field.

Part One offers an introduction to the concept, role and practice of facilitation and its applications in different contexts and cultural locations. It offers a conceptual framework through which to understand the idea of critical facilitation: a political practice that that involves a critical (and self-critical) approach to pedagogies, practices (doing and performing), and resilience in dilemmatic spaces. Part Two illuminates the diversity in the field of facilitation in applied theatre through offering multiple voices, case studies, theoretical positions and contexts. These are drawn from Australia, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, India, Israel/Palestine, Rwanda, the United Kingdom and North America, and they apply a range of aesthetic forms: performance, process drama, forum, clowning and playmaking. Each chapter presents the challenge of facilitation in a range of cultural contexts with communities whose complex histories and experiences have led them to be disenfranchised socially, culturally and/or economically.

Acknowledgements
Part One
Chapter 1: Introduction to the concept, role and practice of facilitation
Part Two
Chapter 2: "All our Stress Goes in the River" (Sarah Woodland, Australia)
Chapter 3: 'Heavy Tales on the Light Rails: Facilitating Public Narratives in St. Paul' (Sonja Arsham Kuftinec, USA)
Chapter 4: 'Another fool in the Balkans' (Paul Murray, Belgrade)
Chapter 5: 'The skills of a 'good' operator in participatory theatre practices' (Kay Hepplewhite, UK)
Chapter 6: 'Pedagogical tact and facilitating risk and risk-taking in young people in circus training' (Jessica Hartley, UK)
Chapter 7: 'Re-centering the margins: Positioning the Learning Disabled Facilitator at the core of the sector' (Liselle Terret, UK)
Chapter 8: 'It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it' (Michael Balfour, Australia)
Chapter 9: 'When things don't go to plan - challenges for facilitation'
Notes
Index
Notes on Contributors

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