Applied Theatre: Facilitation

Sheila Preston is Head of Performing Arts at the University of East London, UK. She is a practising mediator and drama facilitator and has worked in a range of settings locally and internationally, including work with young people, with adults in mental health settings, and in development contexts. She co-edited with Tim Prentki The Applied Theatre Reader (2009) and is co-editor, with Micheal Balfour, of Bloomsbury Methuen Drama's Applied Theatre series.

Notes on Contributors
Introduction to Facilitation
Part 1: A Conceptual Framework

1 Pedagogies: Critical Facilitation
2 Practices: Doing and Performing
3 Resilience in Dilemmatic Spaces

Part 2: Case Studies: Pedagogies, Practices & Contexts,

4 Send in the Clowns (Paul Murray, University of East London, UK)
5 All Our Stress Goes in the River: The Drama Workshop as a (Playful) Space for Reconciliation (Sarah Woodland, Griffith University, Australia)
6 Re-Positioning The Learning-Disabled Performing Arts Student as Critical Facilitator (Liselle Terret, University of East London, UK)
7 The Art of Facilitation: ‘Tain’t what you do (it’s the way that you do it).’ (Michael Balfour, Griffith University, Australia)
8 More than a Sum of Parts? Responsivity and Respond-ability in Applied Theatre Practitioner Expertise (Kay Hepplewhite, Northumbria University, UK)
9 The Artist as Questioner: Why We Do What We Do (Ananda Breed, University of East London, UK)

10 ‘Ain’t you got a right to the tree of life’: Facilitators’ Intentions Toward Community, Integrity and Justice (Cynthia Cohen, Brandeis University, USA)

Afterword

Bibliography
Index