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Urban theatre can be described as theatre made with or by those whose lives are marked by the urban landscape and its social limits and possibilities. At the heart of this text lies the question of how theatre can illuminate the urban and how theatre is illuminated by the urban. The city, like a play, is a space where everything adopts multiple meanings. It is an objective thought and a subjective experience, a charged and symbolic thing, as well as a real, material, lived reality.
The chapters in this book illustrate the theatre's uncanny ability to narrate and symbolize the physical and psychic space of the city. Running through all of the pieces presented are the themes of power and of young people's sense of agency within the structures they dwell in and are shaped by. Through drama education and applied theatre practices, the affinity between the urban and its theatres is radically replaced by marginal spaces, boulevards and schools. As Guillermo Gómez-Peña suggests, the theatre has gone to the people to serve their local and immediate need for a means of holding the urban and the self so that both can be interrogated and re-imagined; so that the various dystopias of urban existence can be envisaged as places of urban solidarity and as utopias, at least, of the mind.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.
Contents
Introduction: Drama and theatre in urban contexts 1. 'I made myself': playmaking as a pedagogy of change with urban youth 2. Preventing violent extremism and 'Not in My Name': theatrical representation, artistic responsibility and shared vulnerability 3. Meddling with 'drama class', muddling 'urban': imagining aspects of the urban feminine self through an experimental theatre process with youth 4. 'Is that what you really want?': a case study of intracultural ensemble-building within the paradoxes of 'urbanicity' 5. The stage and the city: narrative, identity and place in Dermot Bolger's The Ballymun Trilogy (2004-2008) 6. Back on whose track? Reframing ideologies of inclusion and misrecognition in a participatory theatre project with young people in London 7. Mythogeography works: performing multiplicity on Queen Street 8. Situation Venice: towards a performative 'ex-planation' of a city Appendix I: Abstracts in Spanish and French
