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From: YouTube A Personal definition of Theatre Hayley Sherwood In many ways Ann Jellicoe and ‘community theatre’ have become synonymous, and her work, which had great success during the eighties and into the nineties, became for many the defining notion of what ‘community theatre’ should be (and, for many, still is). Put very simply it was the idea that the play, a play which was produced by a professional production team and written by a professional writer, would be performed entirely by the community. Winston Churchill Foundation Australia Play Video Open Document Michael McSweeney

From: YouTube Community Playwriting group Hayley Sherwood Community Playwriting group Winston Churchill Foundation Australia Play Video Open Document Michael McSweeney

From: ReadingList Community Theatre in Australia Richard Fotheringham ISBN 10: 0454014589 / ISBN 13: 9780454014587 Currency Press, Sydney. Published by Methuen Australia, North Ryde,, 1987 Play Video Open Document Paul Maunder

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From: YouTube Mind the Gap - Intergenerational theatre Alexander Santiago-Jirau Mind the Gap - Intergenerational theatre Winston Churchill Foundation Australia Play Video Open Document Michael McSweeney

From: ReadingList Local Arts: Community-Based Performance in the United States Jan Cohen-Cruz Ann Jellicoe, the writer, and the ‘community play’ Rutgers University Press Play Video Open Document Paul Maunder

From: ReadingList Community Plays: How to Put Them on Ann Jellicoe Ann Jellicoe, the writer, and the ‘community play’ JUNE 27, 2016 ~ COMMUNITYTHEATREPLAYWRIGHT My introduction to community theatre came through the work of Ann Jellicoe, probably the most influential writer and director working in the field and the woman who is still most closely identified with the notion of the ‘community play’. Indeed Jellicoe’s own book Community Plays: How To Put Them On, published in 1987 is still the only available text that provides any kind of blue print for the creation of community theatre; (I know three of the people in the photograph on the front of this book – Mr Carlyon was the father of one of my best friends and Mrs Hill still works in a shop in my home town of Colyton. I have always been a little bit frustrated by this cover though – for I was standing just behind Alexandra, and yet somehow missed out on being included in the image). VLUU P1200 / Samsung P1200 In many ways Ann Jellicoe and ‘community theatre’ have become synonymous, and her work, which had great success during the eighties and into the nineties, became for many the defining notion of what ‘community theatre’ should be (and, for many, still is). Put very simply it was the idea that the play, a play which was produced by a professional production team and written by a professional writer, would be performed entirely by the community. Google it Play Video Open Document Paul Maunder

From: YouTube Losing oneself, or being present? Acting as an art form Alexander Santiago-Jirau Losing oneself, or being present? Acting as an art form Winston Churchill Foundation Australia Play Video Open Document Michael McSweeney

From: ReadingList The Politics of Performance: Radical Theatre as cultural intervention Baz Kershaw 1992. The Politics of Performance^ addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation into post-war alternative and community theatre. It proposes a theory of performace as ideological transaction, cultural intervention and community action, which is used to illuminate the potential social and political effects of radical performance practice. It raises issues about the nature of alternative theatre as a movement and the aesthetics of its styles of production, especially in relation to progressive counter-cultural formations. It analyses in detail the work of key practitioners in socially engaged theatre during four decades, setting each in the context of social, political and cultural history and focusing particularly on how they used that context to enhance the potential efficacy of their productions. The book is thus a detailed analysis of oppositional theatre as radical cultural practice in its various efforts to subvert the status quo. Its purpose is to raise the profile of these approaches to performance by proposing, and demonstrating how they may have had a significant impact on social and political history. Routledge Play Video Open Document Paul Maunder

From: ReadingList Theatre for Community, Conflict, and Dialogue. Michael Rhode Michael Rohd is founding artistic director of Sojourn Theatre, a thirteen year old ensemble-based company and a 2005 recipient of Americans for the Arts’ Animating Democracy Exemplar Award. He devises and directs around the nation, received a 2010 Chicago Jeff Award for Best New Work, is on faculty at Northwestern University, and wrote the widely translated book Theatre for Community, Conflict, and Dialogue. His work with Sojourn, other theaters and in non-arts sector settings around the nation focuses on social practice and civic practice projects through collaboratively designed arts-based engagement and participation strategies. He leads the recently formed Center for Performance and Civic Practice. Play Video Open Document

From: YouTube Engaging the Community Alexander Santiago-Jirau Engaging the Community Winston Churchill Foundation Australia Play Video Open Document Michael McSweeney

From: YouTube Frantic Assembly Masterclass: Learning to Fly National Theatre: Movement Artistic Director Scott Graham leads this physical theatre masterclass, featuring a series of exercises and techniques used to create spectacular lifts performed in the production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Find out more about Frantic Assembly: http://www.franticassembly.co.uk Play Video Open Document