The Mart Theatre Project : exploring identity in a community-based applied theatre project with young people

This thesis details the theoretical and practical implications of utilizing applied theatre as a tool for the exploration of youth identity and relationship to community. Drawing on traditions of ethnography and reflective practitioner research, this document explores the roles of identity and ident...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McNamee, Anne Marcelline
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5575
Description
Summary:This thesis details the theoretical and practical implications of utilizing applied theatre as a tool for the exploration of youth identity and relationship to community. Drawing on traditions of ethnography and reflective practitioner research, this document explores the roles of identity and identity-based inequities as they relate to Mart Theatre Project, an applied theatre project aimed at engaging students in Mart, Texas in a larger community development initiative taking place in their town. The document comprises critical analyses of the roles of student identity, facilitator identity, and community identity as they pertain to a community-based applied theatre process and product. The resulting discussion argues for a continual awareness that that the applied theatre process is impacting and impacted by the identities of the facilitator and the participants. === text