How can Applied Theatre impact office productivity and employee well-being? A pilot program in NYC presents its discoveries.

Keith Sawyer views the spontaneous collaboration of group creativity and improvisation actions as "group flow," which organizations can use to function at optimum levels. Sawyer establishes ideal conditions for group flow: group goals, close listening, complete concentration, being in control, blending egos, equal participation, knowing…

This article discusses practical ways to incorporate theater concepts into the ESL classroom. The notion of a theater ensemble lends itself well to group work in language learning. I have used my experience auditioning, participating in theater games, and improv techniques to encourage second language learning through public speaking, group…

This paper recounts the investigative journey of a small group of faculty and graduate students at the University of British Columbia who extensively employed research-based theatre methods to collaboratively and performatively explore three distinct but related contexts that represent critical "moments" in the professional lives of…

The third of four related manuals describing the goals and methods of an established developmental theatre project at the University of Colorado, this manual presents practical guidelines for producing a touring drama. With the audience as the focus in all of the suggested techniques and concepts, the manual discusses financing, casting, the…

Because the researcher's interpretation is the final word, traditional research reinforces relations of domination. When popular theater is used as research methodology, the interviewer's interpretation is performed immediately following data collection, and interviewees offer their interpretations of the interpretation. This gives voice to those…

In the secondary school drama course at Phillips Exeter Academy (New Hampshire), the emphasis is upon group cooperation. Founded on the theories of Stanislavsky, teaching is directed toward a broad variety of skills in acting, directing, stage designing, and playwriting. The main focus of the program is on acting, which is taught in a sequence of…

Four years of activities (1978-82) of Hajitkoum (Migrant Cultural Action Group), a predominantly Moroccan multicultural group of young immigrants based in a suburb of Brussels, are described. The group has the ultimate goal of providing the immigrant community with cadres, drawn from its young generations, who will be able to take on political and…