Resources

Recommended Reading

Adams, Don and Arlene Goldbard. Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development. New York: The Rockerfeller Foundation Creativity and Culture Division, 2001.

---. Eds., Community, Culture and Globalization. New York: The Rockerfeller Foundation Creativity and Culture Division, 2002.

Armstrong, Anne Elizabeth. “Paradoxes in Community-Based Pedagogy: Decentering Students Through Oral History Performance.” Theatre Topics 10.2 (2000): 113-128.

Boal, Augusto. Theatre of the Oppressed . Trans. Charles A. & Maria-Odilia Leal McBride. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1985.

Cocke, Dudley, Harry Newman, and Janet Salmons-Rue, eds., From the Ground Up: Grassroots Theatre in Historical and Contemporary Perspective. Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Cohen, Anthony. “Introduction.” The Symbolic Construction of Community. New York: Youngstock, 1985: 7-21.

Cohen-Cruz, Jan. “A Hyphenated Field: Community-Based Theatre in the USA.” New Theatre Quarterly 16.4 (2000): 364-378.

---. “When the Gown goes to Town: The Reciprocal Rewards of Fieldwork for Artists.” Theatre Topics 11.1 (2001): 56-62.

Coleman, Wendy R. and Stacy Wolf. “Rehearsing for Revolution: Practice, Theory, Race, and Pedagogy (When Failure Works).” Theatre Topics 8.1 (1998): 13-31.

Conquergood, Dwight. “Performing as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of the Ethnography of Performance.” Literature in Performance 5.2 (1985): 1-13.

Geer, Richard Owen. “Of the People, By the People, For the People: The Field of Community Performance.” In Citizen Artist: Twenty Years of Art in the Public Arena. Eds. Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland. Gardiner, New York: Critical Press, 1998.

Geer, Richard Owen. “Out of Control in Colquitt: Swamp Gravy Makes Stone Soup.” TDR 40.2 (1996): 103-130.

Grady, Sharon. Drama and Diversity: A Pluralistic Perspective for Educational Drama.
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000.

Haedicke, Susan C. and Tobin Nellhaurs, eds. Performing Democracy: International
Perspectives on Urban Community-Based Performance. Ann Arbor: Michigan UP, 2001.

hooks, bell. Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope. New York: Routledge, 2003.

hooks, bell. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York:
Routledge, 1994.

Kershaw, Baz. The Politics of Performance: Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention. London: Routledge, 1992. Section on “Performance, Community, and Culture.”

Kuftinec, Sonja. “A Cornerstone for Rethinking Community Theatre.” Theatre Topics 6.1 (1996): 91-104.

---. “Staging the City with the Good People of New Haven.” Theatre Journal 53.2 (2001): 197-222.

---. Staging America: Cornerstone and Community-based Theatre. Carbondale, Il: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003.

Lambert, Joe. Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community. Berkeley, CA:
Digital Diner Press, 2002.

McConachie, Bruce. “Approaching the ‘Structure of Feeling’ in Grassroots Theatre.” Theatre Topics 8.1 (1998): 33-53.

Oddey, Allison. Devising Theatre: A Practical and Theoretical Handbook. New York:
Routledge, 1994.

Paterson, Doug. “To For With: Some Observations on Community-Based Theatre” in ReImaging America: The Arts of Social Change. Ed. Mark O’Brian and Craig Little. Santa Cruz: New Society Publishers, 1990, 237-43.

Schutzman, Mady and Jan Cohen-Cruz, eds. Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Taylor, Philip. Applied Theatre: Creating Transformative Encounters in the Community. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003.

Woodson, Stephani Etheridge. “A Meditation on Ideology, Truth, and Personal Ethics.” Youth Theatre Journal 17 (2003): 119-129.