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Sexuality Education Re- imagined? Relinquishing the Disease and Pregnancy Prevention Focus
In this chapter the theme of ‘re- imagining sexuality education’ is revisited by rethinking the disease and pregnancy prevention focus of programmes....
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‘They Think you Shouldn’t be Having Sex Anyway’: Young People’s Critique of Sexuality Education Content
This chapter addresses the debate about what should constitute the content of sexuality education. It begins by providing an overview of the nature...
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Music is Youth and Youth is Music
From his home in North London, the then 28-year-old Rowland, pictured above, sent out an email through Facebook, a popular digital social networking...
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Reflections on Theory and Method
The previous chapter provided an overview of our study, including a brief introduction to the main youth who participated and provided their own...
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Taking Flight: Creative Cultures and Beyond
The extracts and image that head this chapter underpin our central arguments about how performative creativity and experimentation occurs through...
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Youth and Theatre of the Oppressed
Youth and Theatre of the Oppressed investigates a performance strategy which aims to develop possible alternatives to oppressive forces in individual...
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Afterword Snacking on the Moment
First of all, I want to thank Peter Duffy for inviting me to provide a final comment on the manuscripts in this volume on Theatre of the Oppressed...
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Acting Outside the Box
This chapter will critically examine issues emerging from the incorporation of Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) in an antiracism program in schools. We...
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Silent Screaming and the Power of Stillness
Although I can’t remember the exact date or time, or even where I was particularly, that I saw Francis Bacon’s infamous Study after Velazquez’s...
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Exploring the Stigmatized Child through Theatre of the Oppressed Techniques
The purpose of this chapter is to profile a case study experience from a larger fieldwork project in Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) with fourth-and...
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In Search of the Radical in Performance
In Baz Kershaw’s The Radical in Performance (1999), he develops his thesis that the radical in performance can scarcely exist in mainstream theatre...
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From I to We
A school, like any institution, runs efficiently when all parties involved adhere strictly to its policies and institutional decorum. A school is a...
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Let’s Rock the Bus
The Youth Theater Program at Plaza de la Raza was entering its sixteenth season when B. J. Dodge, its longtime director, asked Mady Schutzman,...
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Puppet Intervention in the Early Childhood Classroom
Acry of “Stop!” rang out as the scene onstage started to heat up and become intensely charged with emotion. That “Stop!” was not from the performers...
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Ripples on the Water
If you have thumbed through the pages of this book, stumbled upon this chapter, and can read the words on this page, then you and I have something in...
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Viewpoints on Israeli-Palestinian Theatrical Encounters
Operating from distinct geographical and experiential locations, the authors of this chapter have, over several years, exchanged ideas about adopting...
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Staying Alert
The following conversation was conducted between Peter Duffy and Chris Vine.
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TELAvision
Teen Education in Liberation Arts (TELA) is a multidimensional youth theatre training program that hosts a diverse assembly of teens, mentors, and...
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Rethinking Interaction On and Off the Stage
While addressing the question of using Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) with youth, I find myself questioning the category of youth. As I hope to make...
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Introduction Why This? Why Now?
Throughout this text, you will meet practitioners all working with young people and using Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) as a vehicle for exploring...