Into Abolitionist Theatre

A Guidebook for Liberatory Theatre-making

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-47237-9 (ISBN)

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Seeking to transform community-based theatre-making, this book explores the transformative potential of abolitionist theatre, as theatre artists and teachers collaborate with marginalized communities to challenge systems of oppression and inspire profound societal change.

Focusing on the idea of bringing people together to demand collective care and community-led practice, this collection works to define theatre’s role in the goals of abolition. Abolitionist theatre-making is a theatre that is connected to the practice of decolonization, intersectional feminism, climate justice, social justice, and liberation struggles. Exploring these ideas and offering a direct exploration of the questions that theatre artists and teachers should ask themselves when evaluating the abolitionist impact of their work, the volume provides accessible and practical tools for theatre-makers with perspectives from working practitioners throughout. Through real-life stories and experiences shared by theatre practitioners, the book provides a rich and diverse tapestry of examples that highlight the ways in which community-based theatre can contribute to transformational change. Readers will benefit from practical frameworks, thought-provoking perspectives, and thoughtfully crafted insights that inspire them to reimagine their own theatre practices and empower them to create theatre that challenges and dismantles oppressive systems while uplifting marginalized voices.

Ideal for undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in utilizing theatre-making for social change, this book offers new and practical insights into how the path to abolition might be laid and theatre’s key role in it. This book will also be of great interest to theatre artists and activist practitioners who are involved in community-based theatre projects with marginalized populations.

Rivka Eckert is an Assistant Professor in the Theatre and Dance Department at SUNY Potsdam, USA. Eckert is a community cultural development theatre-maker using performing arts as a means of cross-cultural communication. She has taught Theatre and English in prisons, high schools, and middle schools and worked with the Peace Corps in Samoa and Liberia.

Introduction

Rivka Eckert

SECTION I: Prison Industrial Complex/Capitalism

1. Interlude 1

2. Holding Ourselves Accountable and Holding Out for the Horizon: Facilitating the Arts in Prisons

Julie Rada

3.Redefining Stereotypes: Abolitionist Theatre and Correctional Officers

Rivka Eckert

4. Staging Student Resistance: A Case Study in Campus Abolitionist Theatre

Misty Saribal

5. Amplifying Undocumented Stories: On Resisting the “Crimmigration” Regime at Albany Park Theater Project

Devika Ranjan

6. Reflections on Section I

SECTION II: No Reforms

7. Interlude 2

8. Radical Values in Reflection: Navigating Arts and Abolition with Incarcerated Youth

Julie Rada and Maya Osterman-Van Grack

9. Abolition in Prisons and Teacher Education through Theatre of the Oppressed: A Conversation between Practitioners and Participants

Rachael Rhoades and Lori Pitts

10. Disrupting Hierarchies: Theatre for Social Change as Rehearsal for Liberation in Secondary Education

Aubrey Helene Neumann

11. Reflection on Section II

Section III: Building Community

12. Interlude 3

13. The Takers’ Tower Will Fall: Epic Lessons in Co-Creation

Mariana Green and Alyssa Vera Ramos

14. Impact: A Conversation among Katherine Nigh, Robert Villanueva, and Brandon de Santiago

Katherine Nigh

15. Creating a Supernova

Elizabeth Hawes

16. The Power of Difference: Solidarity on the Path

Sarah K. Chalmers

17. Reflections on Section III

Section IV: Interconnection/Future Dreaming

18. Interlude 4

19. Spiritual Gifts for Changing Times/Paradigms

Tyrell Blacquemoss

20. Gaining Freedom and Healing Through Theatre

Lynn Baker-Nauman, MA, LMFT, RDT and Spoon Jackson

21. A Play Is a Vehicle to Incite: An Interview with Playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza

Nicholas Fesette

22. A Queer Jail-Time: Disclosure Art and Transformative Justice in Los Angeles Men’s Central Jail

Joey Martinez

23. Reflection on Section IV

Erscheinungsdatum	11.04.2024
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	793 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-032-47237-5 / 1032472375
ISBN-13	978-1-032-47237-9 / 9781032472379
Zustand	Neuware