Overview
- The first volume to map practices and issues in education and outreach work for theatres
- Presents practice-based accounts of theatre outreach, education and community programmes, with a solid and accessible theoretical frame
- Contains a global range of case studies that offer insights on innovative practices, and examine how success can be measured
Part of the book series: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education (LAAE, volume 27)
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About this book
This volume is the first book to map a broad range of practices and critically examine the impact of education and outreach programmes in theatres and theatre companies around the globe.
This innovative volume looks specifically at the manner in which theatres and theatre companies engage in educational, outreach and community work. An array of global case studies examines a wide range of existing and innovative practices, and scrutinises how this work achieves successful results and delivers impact and outcome on investment.
The editors set the scene briefly in terms of the history of education in theatre organisations, and then move on to chart some of the difficulties and challenges associated with this work, as well as looking into the conceptual issues that need to be interrogated so that we may understand the impact of outreach and education work on the communities and audiences it aims to reach.A range of theatre practitioners and academicsdescribe their work, its background, and what the authors understand to be successful outcomes for both the participants and the theatres. Finally, the book offers suggestions for both practitioners and researchers regarding further development in this work.
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Setting the Scene
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Tradition and Innovation
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Moving Beyond the Main House
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Artists in Education, and Beyond
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Agentive Partnership
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Reviews
“Education and Theatre Beyond the Four Walls is a gem of a book. It is a must-read book for artists, theatre practitioners, Companies, educators, venue directors, policy makers, funders and those who work with children and young people through theatre. It provides a thought-provoking perspective on theatre and education work from across three continents, with insights from a wide range of contributors, including some of the world’s leading educational theatre Professionals and academics.” (Catherine Sheridan, Youth Theatre Ireland, Issue 21, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Education and Theatres
Book Subtitle: Beyond the Four Walls
Editors: Michael Finneran, Michael Anderson
Series Title: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22223-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22221-5Published: 05 October 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22223-9Published: 25 September 2019
Series ISSN: 1573-4528
Series E-ISSN: 2214-0069
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 327
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations