ABSTRACT
More recently, inquirers employing arts-based research traditions have also used readers’ theater as a method of representation to display qualitative data and findings to audiences, often in conference venues (Donmoyer & Yennie-Donmoyer, 1995, 1998). This form of creative analytic practice (Richardson, 1999) calls for audience participants to perform scripts supplied by the researchers and presenters (see for example Adams et al., 1998; Hurren et al., 2001). By inviting audience members to become part of the presentation through reading texts aloud, or performing a musical interlude, researchers and presenters utilize two aspects considered key to readers’ theater (Coger & White, 1982, pp. 12-13); interaction of audience members with the topic presented; and stimulation of audience members and readers’ imaginations through vocal and embodied interpretations of texts.
