Refugee Performance

Practical Encounters

By: Michael Balfour (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 January 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Exploring theater works created for, by, and with refugees, this hybrid collection of essays combines newly commissioned scholarly work with examples of writing by refugees themselves. These varied contributions illuminate performances that range from theater in Thai refugee camps to site-specific works staged in a run-down immigrant community in the United Kingdom. An exciting addition to the growing field of applied theater, Refugee Performance provides inspiring insight into the resilience and creativity of artists responding to one of the most critical issues of our time.

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'A commendable resource'

-- Choice by A. H. Fabos

'Editor Michael Balfour collates seventeen chapters which offer a comprehensive overview of the types of performance practices that can emerge from areas of displacement, and liminal or temporary spaces ... Its strength lies in this multi-regional approach'

-- Studies in Theatre and Performance, Dawn Fowler

'[the book] presents an impressive array of perspectives on refugee performance by social workers, folklorists, writers, lawyers, theatre artists, and refugees themselves.'

-- S.E. Wilmer, Journal Contemporary Theatre Review

'This book is the first comprehensive collection of essays on the practices and criticism of refugee performance. It presents a much needed wide range of reflections and analyses on refugee performance and procedural experiences from diverse approaches and regions. Through the lenses it provides, the book examines the aesthetics of contextualised performances, creative tensions and the dynamics of theatre as a healing space.'

-- Jessica A. Kaahwa, South African Theatre Journal

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Non-Fiction Arts & Entertainment Dance & Other Performing Arts Other Performing Arts Acting & Theatre Studies Theatre Direction & Production Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Refugees & Political Asylum

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Permissions	p. ix
Illustrations	p. xi
Author Biographies	p. xiii
Preface	p. xxi
Iraqi Memories. A Personal and Poetic Exploration of Homecomings, Departures and Arrivals from a Theatre Director Who Fled Iraq in 1987 and Returns Home Again	p. 01
On Stitches	p. 15
Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp: Performance, Communication, and Culture	p. 35
Play Extract: Forged in Fire A performance text created	p. 61
Narrative Theatre as an Interactive Community Approach to Mobilizing Collective Action in Northern Uganda	p. 77
Marketing Trauma and the Theatre of War in Northern Uganda	p. 97
Encounters in the Aida Refugee Camp in Palestine: Travel Notes on Attending Alrowwad Theatre's Production of Handala (2011)	p. 129
Rape as War Strategy: A Drama from Croatia	p. 157
Far Away, So Close: Psychosocial and Theatre Activities with Serbian Refugees	p. 165
Play Extract: Refugees	p. 185
'Politics Begins as Ethics': Levinasian Ethics and Australian Performance Concerning Refugees	p. 199
Refugee Performance: Encounters with Alterity	p. 213
Repeat Performance: Dancing DiDinga with the Lost Boys of Southern Sudan	p. 229
Theatre as a Healing Space: Ping Chong's Children of War	p. 247
Drama and Citizenship Education: Tensions of Creativity, Content and Cash	p. 261
Inclusive Democracy: A Consideration of Playback Theatre with Refugee and Asylum Seekers in Australia	p. 279
Hospitable Stages and Civil Listening: Being an Audience for Participatory Refugee Theatre	p. 297
Index	p. 311
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