On Access in Applied Theatre and Drama Education (Hardcover, 1)

Introduction Colette Conroy, Adelina Ong and Dirk Rodricks 1. ‘Talking back, talking out, talking otherwise’: dementia, access and autobiographical performance Janet Louise Gibson 2. Streets, bridges, cul-de-sacs, and dreams: does inviting shelter dwelling youth to work with culture industry professionals engender a sense of ‘cruel optimism’? Selina Busby 3. Homegrown censored voices and the discursive British Muslim representation Roaa Ali 4. Access through the shadows: lessons from applied performance practice research at the borderlands Dirk J. Rodricks 5. Enhancing relaxed performance: evaluating the Autism Arts Festival Ben Fletcher-Watson and Shaun May 6. Creating welcoming spaces in the city: exploring the theory and practice of ‘hospitality’ in two regional theatres Rachel Turner-King 7. Invited hauntings in site-specific performance and poetry: The Asylum Project Petra Kuppers 8. Interrogating wholeness through access aesthetics: Kaite O’Reilly’s In Water I’m Weightless Nina Muehlemann 9. The limits of access: the messy temporalities of hope and the negotiation of place Adelina Ong