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Balme, Christopher B., Ed.; Hakib, Abdul Karim, Ed. – Online Submission, 2023
Theatre for Development is one of the most dynamic and controversial theatre movements on the global South. Emerging in Southern Africa in the 1970s to address social and economic problems using theatrical techniques, today it is taught in theatre departments across sub-Saharan Africa and employed in numerous contexts from health care to…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Financial Support
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Chinyowa, Kennedy C. – Research in Drama Education, 2009
The prevailing tendency in applied drama and theatre research and practice in African contexts has been for both critics and practitioners to apply the Freirian educational paradigm of "codification" and "decodification" in the interpretation of their work. Guarav Desai asserts that most of the theoretical premises of applied…
Descriptors: Drama, Codification, Foreign Countries, Standards
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Gardner, Viv – Research in Drama Education, 2005
The essay deals with a Ugandan production of Brecht's Mother Courage and her Children and the issues raised when it travelled from Uganda to the United States, South Africa and back to Uganda. It explores the shift in perception and conception that happened/happens to both image and national identity when a production moved from one cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Audiences, African American Children