ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the ways in which entrenched world views and hegemonic prejudices might be opened up by particular types of creative practice rooted in notions of justice and egalitarianism discussed earlier. The case study is based on a research project with Gypsy Roma Travellers focused on the use of imagined experience to create a space in which existing understandings could be opened up, acknowledged, shared and challenged by creating anti-racist social and educational spaces in schools and local authority institutions in North-West England. The practice employed is that of research-based applied drama and theatre, and the pretext 'Michael's Story' is presented as part of the ongoing research into everyday racism. Translation is the entry point to the practice and people write deliberately from their perspectives as practitioners. This involves talking through intentions and interpretations of the process to give the feel of how people see translation in action in pretext-based process drama as being kaleidoscopic.
