New,Theatre Responds to Social Trauma: Chasing the Demons
- Editor: Kaplan, Ellen W.
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Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- PART I Introduction
- Theatre and Social Trauma: Introduction and Overview
- Ellen W. Kaplan
- The Story Before the Script: Documenting and testifying to trauma histories of incarcerated persons
- Julie Kriegler
- PART II Exiles: Loss of Language, Loss of Home
- Weaving Personal Trauma in Video Opera “THE WArDROBE”: Transdisciplinarity and Womanhood
- Nerina Cocchi
- Lampedusa Beach: A Voice from the Depths of the Sea
- Anna Botta
- Interview with playwright Lina Prosa
- Anna Botta and Nerina Cocchi
- The Theater of Arístides Vargas: Antidote Against Death
- María Estela Harretche
- Bearing Witness to the “Unspeakable”? Poetry writing in the aftermath of the Êzîdî Genocide
- Mairead Smith
- PART III Theatre Companies Wrestle with Social Trauma
- A Serpent’s Tale: The Work of El Teatro Indigena de la Sierra Tarahumara
- Gabriel Harrell
- Witness Theater: The Power of Embodied Storytelling
- Sally Grazi-Shatzkes
- Resistance: Theatre as Protest and Reckoning
- Jean-Remy Monnay
- Life Suspended: Theatre as Social Practice in Afghanistan
- Abdul-Hakim Hashemi Hamidi
- Contemporary Kenyan Theatre as a Response to the Traumas of Colonialism
- Aroji Otieno
- Community as Theatre: Shakespeare Festival in St. Louis and Community Partnerships
- Mariah L. Richardson
- Interviews with Marjolaine Goldsmith and Dominic Dupont/Theater of War
- Ellen W. Kaplan
- Trauma and Morality in Classical Greek Drama: Trauma and Authentic Accountability Before the Christian Era
- Len Berkman
- PART IV Processes of Embodiment
- Interview with Carol Gilligan
- Ellen W. Kaplan
- Interview with Trenda Loftin
- Ellen W. Kaplan
- Pedagogies of Embodied Healing: Devised Theatre and Reciprocal Empathy
- Zoe Rose Kriegler-Wenk
- PART V Closing the Gaps: Social Trauma and Text
- Empathy, Imagination and Embodiment: Turning Document into Fiction
- Alex Poppe
- Calls to Action: Collaboration across Difference
- Catherine Filloux
- AFTERWORD
- Ellen W. Kaplan
- Index