The Self in Performance

Introduction: Autobiographical, Self-Revelatory, Autoethnographic, and Therapeutic Performance: Definitions and Directions within the Field; Susana Pendzik, Renee Emunah, David Johnson Part I: Theory and Concepts 1. From Behind the Scenes to Facing an Audience in Self-Revelatory Performance; Renee Emunah 2. The Poiesis and Dramaturgy of Autobiographical Therapeutic Performance; Susana Pendzik 3. Rehearsing and Performing Surprise: Seeking Otherness in Self-Revelatory Performance; David Read Johnson 4. Relational Aesthetics in Therapeutic Autobiographical Performance; Nisha Sajnani 5. The Interface of Art and Healing in Self-Revelatory Performance; Stephen Snow 6. Intersubjectivity in Performance: A Theoretical Study of the Relationship between Performer and Witness in Autobiographical Therapeutic Theatre; Jean-Francois Jacques 7. Autobiographical Performance in Theatre and in Drama Therapy: A Performance Studies Perspective; Gideon Zehavi 8. Re-storied Scripts and Autobiographical Performance; Pam Dunne Part II: Training and Research 9. Self-Disclosure and Wanting to Get that Degree: The Role of Autobiographical Theatre in Drama Therapy Training; Alida Gersie and Ditty Dokter 10. Personal Theatre: Process and Pedagogy; Anna Seymour 11. Bringing Performance to Life: Research Methodology in Solo Autobiographical Theatre; Drew Bird 12. The Play as Client: A Drama Therapy Experiment in Autobiographical Therapeutic Theatre; Maria Hodermarska, Stephanie Omens, and Prentiss Benjamin 13. Postdramatic Sensory Autoethnography: A Performance-Based Form of Self-Supervision and Trauma Treatment; Samantha Wraith 14. Embodied Life Stories: Directing Self-Revelatory Performances Focused on Trauma and Shame; Sheila Rubin Part III: Clinical and Theatrical Applications 15. Autobiographical Therapeutic Performance as a Rite of Passage in Short-Term Psychotherapy; Armand Volkas 16. Holding a Mirror to Lebanese Society: Self-Revelatory Performance in Lebanese Prisons; Zeina Daccache 17. 'Now I Can Say that I was also an Actress:' A Model of Autobiographical Therapeutic Theatre for Older People with Dementia; Dovrat Harel 18. Terrorists of the Heart : An Autoethnographic Reading of a Theatre Work; Jules Dorey Richmond and David Richmond