Hope in a Collapsing World
Author | : Kathleen Gallagher |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2022-03-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781487541224 |
ISBN-13 | : 1487541228 |
Rating | : 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: For young people, the space of the drama classroom can be a space for deep learning as they struggle across difference to create something together with common purpose. Collaborating across institutions, theatres, and community spaces, the research in Hope in a Collapsing World mobilizes theatre to build its methodology and create new data with young people as they seek the language of performance to communicate their worries, fears, and dreams to a global network of researchers and a wider public. A collaboration between a social scientist and a playwright and using both ethnographic study and playwriting, Hope in a Collapsing World represents a groundbreaking hybrid format of research text and original script – titled Towards Youth: A Play on Radical Hope – for reading, experimentation, and performance.