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Mackey, Sally; Fisher, Amanda Stuart – Research in Drama Education, 2011
"Theatre Applications" was an international conference convened by the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, in April 2010. Framed by the subheading "Performance with a purpose", the call for papers invited contributors to consider how theatre making in different settings can "make a difference" to those who…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Audiences, Role, Community
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Snowball, J. D.; Jamal, M.; Willis, K. G. – Social Indicators Research, 2010
Contrary to Bourdieu's theory ("Distinction: A social critique of the judgment of taste". Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press (1984)) that cultural consumption of so-called "high" versus popular culture is determined by socio-economic class, Peterson ("Poetics" 21:243-258, 1992; "Poetics"…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Popular Culture, Foreign Countries, Social Indicators
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Fritz, Elzette – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2011
This article gives a critical analysis of a nursery school (kindergarten/pre-school) play performance, in which lyrics and movement set the stage for gender stereotyping and sexualised behaviour. Using extracts of lyrics, the reader is invited to participate as an outsider and 'witness' (in accordance with narrative therapy tradition) to the way…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Sex Stereotypes
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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