Performance and Participation

Anna Harpin is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick, UK, and is also a theatre maker with her company Idiot Child. Helen Nicholson is Professor of Theatre and Performance at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, where she specialises in applied and participatory theatre and contemporary performance.

1. Performance and Participation; Anna Harpin and Helen Nicholson
PART I: RECOGNISING PARTICIPATION
2. The Cultivation of Entangled Listening: An Ensemble of More-than-Human Participants; Deirdre Heddon
3. Renegotiating Immersive Participation in Analogue's Re-enactments; Liam Jarvis
4. Mute Stages: Performing Silent Lives; Anna Harpin
5. Participation, Recognition and Political Space; Colette ConroyPART II: LABOURS OF PARTICIPATION
6. Affective Labours of Cultural Participation; Helen Nicholson
7. Sometimes the Quieter the Revolution, the Louder it is Heard: Crafting, Protest and Gender; Dawn Fowler
8. 'Tell no-one': Secret Cinema and the Paradox of Secrecy; Adam AlstonPART III: AUTHORING PARTICIPATION
9. The Agency of Environment: Participation Citizenship and Multi-Story Water; Stephen Bottoms
10. One Step Forward, One Step Back: Resisting the Forensic Turn; James Frieze
11. Authority, Authorisation and Authorship: Participation in Community Plays in Belfast; Alison Jeffers
Bibliography
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