This book is for both art-based researchers and research-informed artists, exploring the theatrical genre known as Collective Creation, or Playbuilding. Performers generate data around chosen topics- from addiction and sexuality to qualitative research-by compiling scenes from their disparate voices. Audience members become involved in the investigation, and the performed scenes do not end the conversation but challenge and extend it. Through discussion and audience participation, the process examines how knowledge is defined and how data is mediated.

About the Author

Joe Norris was a co-founder and the artistic director of the Mirror Theatre, a social issues focused touring theatre troupe, and he co-edited the book Learning to Teach Drama: A Case Narrative Approach. He has served as the Theatre-in-Education Network Chair and Research Network Chair for the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. He presently teaches courses on integrating the arts in the curriculum, learning through drama, curriculum theory, qualitative research, drama as a way of knowing, and the principles of learning at St. Francis Xavier University.

Book Information
ISBN 9781598744774
Author Joe Norris
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Left Coast Press Inc
Publisher Left Coast Press Inc
Weight(grams) 362g