Applied Theatre and Sexual Health Communication: Apertures of Possibility (1st ed. 2020) (Contemporary Performance InterActions)

By: Katharine E. Low

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Synopsis: This book analyses the partnership between applied theatre and sexual health communication in a theatre-making project in Nyanga, a township in South Africa. By examining the bridges and schisms between the two fields as they come together in the project, an alternative way of approaching sexual health communication is advocated. This alternative considers what it is that applied theatre does, and could become, in this context. Moments of value which lie around the margins of the practice emerge as opportunities that can be overlooked. These somewhat ephemeral, intangible moments, which appear on the edges, are described as ‘apertures of possibility’ and occur when one takes a step back and realises something unnoticed in the moment. This book offers an invitation to pause and notice the seemingly insignificant moments that often occurs tangentially to the practice. The book also calls for more outcry about sexual health and sexual violence, arguing for theatre-making as a route to multitudes of voices, nuanced understandings, and diverse spaces in which discussions of sexuality and sexual health are shared, felt, and experienced.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781349959754
Related ISBNs:: 9781349959747
Publisher:: Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
Date of Addition:: 11/25/20
Copyrighted By:: Springer
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Drama, Plays and Theater, Medicine
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.