Just a bit of self-promotion...as well as promoting Maxwel Okuto from Amani People's Theatre in Kenya. Maxwel and I worked together on an article which has just been published in Research in Drama Education - you can read it here
The piece reflects some of the conversations that we were having during the initial stages of our collaboration last year, and focuses on the challenges facing applied theatre practitioners in Kenya. I also drew on some of my PhD research and a few of the interviews I conducted during my fieldwork last year in order to link our own experiences and thoughts to wider concerns reflected in the literature and in what practitioners were telling me. If you don't have access to it but would like to read it let me know - I think I get a few free copies to send out. And if you do read it and have any questions/thoughts/disagree(!!) please do get in touch!!!
Co-writing with Maxwel was a great experience, and he brought real depth of knowledge to the article, given his many years of experience in applied theatre and Theatre for Development...it's set me off on thinking about how I can continue to co-author with practitioners in order to reflect the reality of working in applied theatre on the ground, but also perhaps how to co-author with participants too...any thoughts??!
The piece reflects some of the conversations that we were having during the initial stages of our collaboration last year, and focuses on the challenges facing applied theatre practitioners in Kenya. I also drew on some of my PhD research and a few of the interviews I conducted during my fieldwork last year in order to link our own experiences and thoughts to wider concerns reflected in the literature and in what practitioners were telling me. If you don't have access to it but would like to read it let me know - I think I get a few free copies to send out. And if you do read it and have any questions/thoughts/disagree(!!) please do get in touch!!!
Co-writing with Maxwel was a great experience, and he brought real depth of knowledge to the article, given his many years of experience in applied theatre and Theatre for Development...it's set me off on thinking about how I can continue to co-author with practitioners in order to reflect the reality of working in applied theatre on the ground, but also perhaps how to co-author with participants too...any thoughts??!