Theatre of Witness (eBook)

Finding the Medicine in Stories of Suffering, Transformation, and Peace

Teya Sepinuck (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
240 Seiten
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-85700-745-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Theatre of Witness is a model of performance that gives voice to those who have been marginalized, forgotten or lost to society, creating a safe forum for audiences to bear witness to accounts of suffering and transformation. This book chronicles the author's 26 years of creating theatre with people whose stories have previously gone untold.

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Theatre of Witness is a model of performance that gives voice to those who have been marginalized, forgotten or unheard in society, creating a safe forum for audiences to bear witness to real-life accounts of suffering and transformation. This book chronicles the author's 26 years of creating and producing theatre with people whose stories have previously gone untold, including prisoners and their families, refugees, survivors and former perpetrators of domestic abuse, ex-combatants and those who have lived through war. With an engaging and heartfelt narrative, it beautifully conveys the key principles of Theatre of Witness and explores the author's own journey that lead to the conception and growth of this unique model of performance.Exploring diverse human experiences in the United States, Poland and Northern Ireland, this book will be of interest to practitioners and students of applied theatre, peace and conflict studies, professionals working in conflict resolution, counselors, psychotherapists, professionals in the field of criminal and restorative justice, dramatherapists, psychodramatists and spiritual seekers.

Autor

Teya Sepinuck is the founder and director of Theatre of Witness. For the past 26 years, she has been creating and producing Theatre of Witness projects with prisoners and their families, survivors and perpetrators of abuse, refugees, immigrants, elders, and those who have lived through war. In 1991, Teya founded 'TOVA – Artistic Projects for Social Change' through which she created and produced more than 40 original Theatre of Witness works. She has been the recipient of the Philadelphia Human Rights Award for Arts and Culture, a Local Hero Award from the Bank of America, as well as the Cultural Arts Award from Women's Way and the Mayor's Commission on Women. Her work has taken her to Poland and Northern Ireland, where she is currently engaged in her second two-year residency at the Playhouse in Derry/Londonderry, creating works with ex-combatants, members of security forces, survivors, witnesses, and those living with the intergenerational legacy of the 'Troubles.'

Inhalt

1. Prelude: Setting the Scene. 2. Introduction: About Theatre of Witness and this Book. 3. Growing Old is About the Growing: Aging. 4. I Make Myself at Home Wherever I am: Homelessness. 5. Death is an Everyday Thing: Refugees and Immigrants. 6. These Hands: Women and Girls. 7. Living with Life: Prisoners. 8. Standing at the Doorway: Runaway Girls in Poland. 9. My Neighborhood is a Cemetery: Inner-City Violence. 10. Steal the Stars and the Moon: Polish Prisoners. 11. Sucking Water from Mud: Domestic Abuse. 12. Did You Understand What You Were Dying For? War. 13. I'm the Daughter of a Criminal: Families of Prisoners. 14. Beauty Born from Ugliness: Fathers on the Front Lines – Northern Ireland. 15. Your People are My People: Unheard Women's Stories – Northern Ireland. 16. Coda. Guiding Principles.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.1.2013
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
• Schlagworte: Acting • Conflict Resolution • Counsellors • Domestic Abuse • dramatherapists • hidden voices • Human Experience • Immigrants • marginalized • narrative • Peace studies • Performance • Play • Poverty • Prison • Prisoners • Psychotherapists • Recovery • Refugee • Refugees • Restorative Justice • Spirituality • Transition • war survivors
• ISBN-10: 0-85700-745-9 / 0857007459
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85700-745-2 / 9780857007452