Theatre and Empowerment: Community Drama on the World Stage

Book Overview

Theatre and Empowerment examines the ability of drama, theatre, dance and performance to empower communities of very different kinds, and it does so from a multi-cultural perspective. The communities involved include poverty-stricken children in Ethiopia and the Indian sub-continent, disenfranchised Native Americans in the USA and young black men in Britain, victims of violence in South Africa and Northern Ireland, and a threatened agricultural town...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521817293
• ISBN13: 9780521817295
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"