Meeting Myself for the First Time While on Stage: Learning that Emerged Within a Community Popular Theatre Project (original) (raw)
Much popular theatre writing describes projects and the processes undertaken to achieve social actions. The group and issues drawn upon here comprised psychiatric survivors and their lives. The framing for the work relied on performative inquiry to develop popular theatre. This article focuses specifically on what cast members or 'co-searchers' realised as a result of a year-long journey. Notions of 'voice', 'identity' and 'power' were the larger key ideas that were shared. The article sums up these filtering concepts and places them in a diagram that shows how the cast, or 'co-searchers', created the relationships among themselves. Extrait La plupart des écrits sur le théâtre populaire décrivent des projets et les procédés entrepris pour atteindre des actions sociales. Le groupe et les problèmes traités incluaient des survivants psychiatriques et leurs vies. Le cadre du travail reposait sur une enquête performative pour développer le théâtre ...