Drama and Theatre in Urban Contexts

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