{"title":"Teaching Drama in Education in the University of Ghana: My perspectives about Ghanaian indigenous games","authors":"Tabitha Harriet Deh","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2023.2235354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2023.2235354","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis proposal reveals the significance of Applied Theatre in Ghana, with special interest in Drama in Education (DIE) as a teaching tool for teachers and learners. As a teaching tool, Drama in Education places tremendous emphasis on Process, Performance and Skill oriented activities to achieve its teaching and learning goals. The dramatic experiences derived from the improvisations; creative dramatics, mime, role-play and other Ghanaian indigenous art forms such as games, symbols, proverbs, storytelling, etc. in the learning explorations expedite transformation in learners. In these dramatic developments, creativity helps to improve not only learners but society as a whole. This paper aims at exhibiting some of the games employed in various sessions with students in the University of Ghana. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135815286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"¡BE PREBEARED! TEATRO EN EDUCACIÓN - THEATRE IN EDUCATION: A multilingual project for early learners","authors":"Sindy Isabel Castro","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2023.2216195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2023.2216195","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49595404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrew Waldron, M. Cooper, Felix Goetschius-Adams, G. Guthrie, Mason Sharon
{"title":"Uncovering LGBTQ+ theatre for youth: A survey of published plays","authors":"Andrew Waldron, M. Cooper, Felix Goetschius-Adams, G. Guthrie, Mason Sharon","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2023.2218163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2023.2218163","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41851534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating the college theatre audition process as a non-binary performer: An interview between “Gray” and Derek Herman","authors":"Derek R. Herman","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2023.2217082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2023.2217082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46710228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The absence of trauma-informed practices in the high school production process: A qualitative study","authors":"James D. Chrismon, Adam W. Carter","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2023.2218719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2023.2218719","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45315198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction from the new co-editorial team","authors":"Dana Edell, Elena Stephenson, A. Valentine","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2022.2145824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2022.2145824","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"36 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49139574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surviving in the Cracks: A community-engaged methodology with an applied theatre collaborative script-analysis","authors":"A. Wager, Davina Boone","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2022.2147620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2022.2147620","url":null,"abstract":"Responding to cultural discourses and actions of oppression, members of the Vancouver Youth Vision Coalition (VYVC) used theatre-making and performance to build self-advocacy skills and their social activism through sharing their stories of being unhoused in the production of Surviving the Cracks, a youth-led, participatory theatrical production. VYVC is a youth-driven coalition that acts as an advocacy group and peer-to-peer support for youth who work on community projects and have precarious housing. Through a partnership with the University of British Columbia, the three VYVC youth-leaders – Davina, Fraggle, and Trevor – invited me to facilitate the creation of, direct, and research their theatrical production as a response to the government closures of the three underage safehouses in Vancouver, Canada (Wager 2014; Wager and Ansloos 2021; Wager et al. 2009). Eight youth, between the ages of 16 to 25 who had experience being unhoused, participated in the year-long project by doing character-building activities, journaling stories, improvising scenes, co-writing the script, interviewing safe house staff, visiting old safe house sites, and performing a play based on their lived experience. These informal learning practices at non-academic sites created engaging alternative learning spaces for these youth, most of whom had left formal schooling before or during high school (Wagner, Ansloos, and Thorburn, 2022). About a year after the performances of Surviving of the Cracks, Davina, a brilliant VYVC youth-leader, and I spent an afternoon reading and analyzing the script, noting historical events and spatial elements to further tell the story. The following collaborative script-analysis unpacks how the script was collectively created through a telling of the creation story and through a contextualizing youth/researcher analysis. My hope as a theatre-driven youth participatory action researcher, is that by reading the script and specifically the youth/researcher analysis, that we may not only further youth advocacy and activism within theatre education and applied theatre, but also think about crucial ways to co-analyze and explain our processes through collaborative methods of analysis, such as this one.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"36 1","pages":"68 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44779890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caroline Umeda, Lucy Chen, B. Prusa, Carleigh Robinson, Molly Vilaithong, Andrea Wurster
{"title":"Youth performers’ participation experiences in a sensory friendly theatre program","authors":"Caroline Umeda, Lucy Chen, B. Prusa, Carleigh Robinson, Molly Vilaithong, Andrea Wurster","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2022.2147619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2022.2147619","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sensory friendly theatre programs aim to increase theatregoing access for the disability community by dismantling barriers in the social and sensory environments to create more inclusive theatre spaces. This qualitative study targeting youth performers’ experiences in sensory friendly theatre revealed four themes: enjoyable performer experiences, “sensory friendly” as a novel concept, sensory friendly performance as different but not lesser, and desire for expanded sensory friendly opportunities. Youth performers’ positive participation experiences align with those of parent and organizational stakeholders in existing literature. Findings support sensory friendly theatre’s value and inform future efforts to increase youth preparation for sensory friendly shows.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"36 1","pages":"119 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46642916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Directing actors with learning disabilities: A meta-analysis of past and current practices","authors":"Clara Kundin","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2022.2147618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2022.2147618","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article documents techniques, strategies, accommodations, and modifications directors and arts educators have historically used and are currently using when directing actors of all ages with learning disabilities. The goal of this research is to develop a contextual base of existing knowledge and practices. The author pulls from published literature, a survey of the field, interviews, and personal experience to create this documentation. Most commonly, directors have been and are using devising, extended rehearsal time, and adaptive strategies with text to support their learning disabled actors.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"36 1","pages":"41 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46651037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finding the play that fits","authors":"B. Oglesby","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2022.2147621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2022.2147621","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"36 1","pages":"136 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47662413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}