ABSTRACT
This book is for both art-based researchers and research-informed artists, exploring the theatrical genre known as Collective Creation, or Playbuilding. Performers generate data around chosen topics— from addiction and sexuality to qualitative research—by compiling scenes from their disparate voices. Audience members become involved in the investigation, and the performed scenes do not end the conversation but challenge and extend it. Through discussion and audience participation, the process examines how knowledge is defined and how data is mediated.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
The Background
part II|4 pages
The Scripting
chapter 4|12 pages
Pressures
Understanding Peer Pressure and Sexual Activity through Sculpting and Readers Theatre
chapter 6|10 pages
Funky Shirt
Problematizing Clothing Communication through Voices Off and a Dream Sequence
chapter 9|8 pages
The Party
Understanding Status, Power, and Bullying through Gibberish and Body Language
chapter 13|12 pages
Whose Pencil Is It Anyway?
Understanding Conflict through Standard Dramatization and Scene Reconstruction
part III|2 pages
The Performance Workshop