ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies some of the ethical challenges arising during the typical, often interweaving and overlapping, phases of research-based theatre (RBT) that include: researching, creating, producing, performing, witnessing, and evaluating. Performances of RBT are usually public, and if research participants take part in them, confidentiality and anonymity can no longer be offered. There is a growing interest from researchers across disciplines to employ creative means of data generation, analysis, and dissemination with stakeholders, community members, and other researchers. The growing use of RBT raises ethical challenges for researchers, performers, and audiences. RBT practitioners need to develop a critical awareness of emergent ethical issues and explicitly and continually address these issues as an integral part of the RBT process.
