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Laura Bissell; Sally Charlton; Sinéad Hargan; Althea Young – Research in Drama Education, 2024
This collaborative co-authored article argues that performance is a portal that can connect 'infinite' and 'far' communities, and that portals can invite a sense of world-building through digital connections. For two months, a gold shipping container in Glasgow connected to other portals in Iraq, Rwanda, Mexico City, Palestine and Uganda for…
Descriptors: Pandemics, Performance, Theater Arts, Foreign Countries
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Bamuturaki, Keneth – Research in Drama Education, 2022
This article examines the complexity of embedding the element of sustainability to foster successful TfD practice. I recount my own experience as a TfD practitioner in western Uganda, where, in spite of my effort to execute a sustainable TfD project, I was let down by insufficiency of funds resulting from the high handedness of the funders of my…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Foreign Countries, Theater Arts, Politics
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Pribyl, Jill – Research in Dance Education, 2022
It has been almost twenty years since Namasagali College, a co-educational secondary school in Eastern Uganda, staged its last performance, yet the memory of these musical theater productions are recalled with the nostalgia of a lost renaissance. These transdisciplinary productions that utilized modern dance, acting and mimed songs transformed the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance Education, Secondary School Students, Theater Arts
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Friel, Rebecca; Ouma, Samuel – Research in Drama Education, 2020
In this article the authors reflect on their work together on 'Sharing Stories', a project involving British and Ugandan partners using theatre to explore issues around mental ill health. They argue that while working through theatre in this intercultural project created spaces of equality, wider factors limited the extent to which an equal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Theater Arts
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Kagan, Eve – Teaching Artist Journal, 2011
No matter how disturbing, it is common to hear "that's so gay" or "you're such a fag" echoing through the halls of a high school, but when the high school is an international school in Uganda, those words have a newfound potency. As an American teacher working abroad, the author often struggled over her responsibility for the…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Homosexuality, Social Bias, Cultural Context
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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