Applied Theatre and Gender Justice is a collection of essays highlighting the value and efficacy of using applied theatre to address gender in a broad range of settings, identifying challenges, and offering concrete best practices.
This book amplifies and shares lessons from practitioners and scholars who use performance to create models of collective solidarity, building upon communities strengths toward advocating for justice and equity. The book is divided into thematic sections, comprising three essays addressing a range of questions about the challenges, learning opportunities, and benefits of applied theatre practices. Further exploring the themes, issues, and ideas, each section ends with a moderated roundtable discussion between the essays' authors.
Part of the series Applied Theatre in Context, Applied Theatre and Gender Justice, this book is an accessible and valuable resource for theatre practitioners and the growing number of theatre companies with education and community engagement programs. Additionally, it provides essential reading for teachers and students in a myriad of fields: education, theatre, civic engagement, criminal justice, sociology, women and gender studies, environmental studies, disability studies, and ethnicity and race studies.
Applied Theatre and Gender Justice is a collection of essays highlighting the value and efficacy of using applied theatre to address gender in a broad range of settings, identifying challenges, and offering concrete best practices.
Part 1: Igniting Eco-activism
1. Decolonizing the Conversation:
Sustainable Development Performances in Egypt
2. Patnaiks Cyco Theatre in
India: Grassroots Environmental and Gender Activism
3. Resisting Ecological
Colonialism in the Niger Delta: Indigenous Women and the Beni Kamai Festival
Theatre Part 2: Inspiring Playful Interventions
4. Picking up the Sequins:
Drag Storytime Performances, Applied Theatre, and Queer Joy
5. Facilitating
Gender Awareness with First Drop Theatre: Applied Theatre in Indian
Workplaces
6. Yassified Shakespeare: The Case for TikTok as Applied Theatre
Part 3: Affecting Responses to Violence
7. Facilitating Afecto in Resistance
to Violence: Patricia Arizas Work with Female Victims of Colombias Armed
Conflict
8. Moving Women from the Margins to the Center of History:
After/Life and the 1967 Detroit Rebellion
9. No Seriously, Humor is Important
Part 4: Reclaiming Bodily Autonomy
10. The Billboard #TrustBlackWomen:
Abortion as Self-Care
11. Challenging Ableist Views of Motherhood: Mind The
Gaps Daughters of Fortune
12. The Maternal Ground on Which I Stand:
Developing A Solo Performance within the Harris Matriarchy Part 5: Affirming
Identity with Youth
13. Negotiating Gender (in)Justice: The Politics of
Visibility in the Performing Justice Project
14. Queering Playback Theatre
15. ART Built on Trust and Solidarity: Creating Applied Theatre with Girls
and Nonbinary Teens Part 6: Expanding the Definitions
16. Performing
Vulnerability, Voicing Resistance: Womens Spoken Word Poetry in Trinidad and
Tobago
17. Tools for Equity and Collaboration
18. The Art of Genderbending:
Fighting Hegemonic Gender Ideology with Chinese Martial Arts
Lisa S. Brenner is a professor of theatre at Drew University, where she teaches dramaturgy, theatre history, and applied performance. Her theatre experience includes dramaturgy, devising, directing, and playwriting.
Evelyn Diaz Cruz is a professor of theatre at the University of San Diego, where she teaches playwriting, acting, theatre of diversity, and theatre and community. Her theatre experience includes playwriting, directing, and acting.
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