Theatre of Good Intentions

1. Introduction: Why Do We Want to Use Theatre to Make Social Change?
Dani Snyder-Young

Part I. Impacting Participants

2. Theatre of Good Intentions
Dani Snyder-Young

3. Participatory Theatre and the Problem of Dominant Discourse
Dani Snyder-Young

4. Embedded in Institutions, Beholden to Institutional Forces
Dani Snyder-Young

Part II. Impacting Audiences

5. Catharsis, Critical Distance, and Change
Dani Snyder-Young

6. Spectatorship, Community, and ‘Otherness’
Dani Snyder-Young

7. Responding to Contemporary Events in an Era of Instant Gratification
Dani Snyder-Young

8. Conclusion: Real Change in the Real World
Dani Snyder-Young

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Performing Arts, Theatre History, Theatre and Performance Studies, Arts, Popular Science, general, Cultural Studies