Applied Theatre and Racial Justice: Care, Community, Change (Applied Theatre in Context)

Applied Theatre and Racial Justice: Care, Community, Change documents and amplifies lessons from practitioners and scholars who use performance to create models of transformation, collective learning, and liberation. The essays and lively roundtable discussions center knowledge and cultural practices developed by Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latine, people of color, and/or people of the global majority, many of whom were doing this work long before applied theatre became an established field of academic study.Building upon frameworks such as Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, protest theatre, antiracist theatre practices, and theatre for social change, the contributors grapple with applied theatre and racial justice from various perspectives as they work towards mitigating and healing the harm caused by racial injustice.These unique essays provide sample exercises, applicable principles, pedagogical tools, philosophical approaches, and models for art-making and research.The range of