{"title":"Performing the black epistle and transmission of racial embodied knowledge: Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s Word Becomes Flesh","authors":"L. Gray","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2017.1370759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2017.1370759","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT What can a letter teach an unborn child about what it means to be a black boy? Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s Word Becomes Flesh answers this question as his narrator pens a series of letters to his son outlining his hopes and fears. In this essay, I meditate on the performance and text of Word Becomes Flesh as a way of identifying how a black identity is performed, taught, and constituted through the epistolary form and its efficacy in a cultural product. I argue that through bodies, hip-hop, and the epistle, Joseph invokes an Afro-optimistic black cultural memory to consider and teach black masculinities to an absent child figure. In doing so, I hope to acknowledge the ways in which Joseph utilizes hip-hop theatre to explore the pervasive legacies of oppression, exhaustion, and the threat of hope embedded in black survival that is offered by a future generation.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"31 1","pages":"140 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2017.1370759","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44457811","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":"Reflecting us and those around us","authors":"Malik Gillani","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2017.1375365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2017.1375365","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"31 1","pages":"151 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2017.1375365","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43122149","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":"Beyond acknowledgement of whiteness: Teaching white theatre teachers to examine their racial identity","authors":"Roxanne L. Schroeder-Arce","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2017.1370757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2017.1370757","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While some US public school theatre programs seek to move away from an annual token play of color, the white canon persists. This reflexive essay examines one professor’s pedagogical approaches in working with white pre-service theatre teachers as they direct short plays with high school students. The work interrogates intersections of identity, critical race theory, performance, representation and education theory and invites the field of theatre education to move beyond an acknowledgement of whiteness towards critical analysis of such racialization. The author examines her own practice as she seeks to embody culturally responsive theatre pedagogy (and invites her students to do the same), thus interrogating all identities rather than the common approach of viewing whiteness as given, non-diverse and normalized.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"31 1","pages":"105 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2017.1370757","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46575164","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":"Casting youth/Developing identity: Casting and racial and ethnic identity development","authors":"C. Syler, Anna Chen","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2017.1370758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2017.1370758","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay explores how casting in youth-based applied theatre coincides with an important period of racial and ethnic identity development for adolescents and young adults. Using theory from developmental and educational psychology, the essay suggests that youth experience a spectrum of readiness to explore their racial and/or ethnic identity, and consequent representation, in performance. To ground this suggestion, the authors trace their experience casting, and being cast in, a multiethnic production of Rhinoceros. To conclude, the authors propose several ways directors can signpost casting goals to support youth in positive racial and ethnic identity development.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"31 1","pages":"104 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2017.1370758","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46483350","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":"Practice makes perfectible: The impact of training and rehearsal on program fidelity","authors":"W. Mages","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2017.1298542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2017.1298542","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Intervention fidelity is essential to the implementation of effective educational programs and research. Providing rigorous facilitator training is one method of promoting intervention fidelity. This study documents the rehearsal paradigm and the fidelity of the implementation of a theatre-in-education intervention. The intensive facilitator training schedule, designed to ensure that each actor-teacher had a high level of facilitator expertise and could faithfully administer the program, successfully fostered intervention fidelity. Although the rigorous training paradigm described in this article was designed to prepare professional actor-teachers to administer a theatre-in-education intervention with preschool children in Head Start and their teachers, the depth, breadth, and rigor of the training paradigm can inform other forms of educator preparation and instruction.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"31 1","pages":"22 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2017.1298542","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41365790","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":"Dramaturgies of risky play: Two (risky) case studies","authors":"E. Hughes","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2016.1278066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2016.1278066","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this descriptive autoethnographic essay, I discuss my work on risky play as a dramaturgical framework in two recent performances for young audiences—one traditional, one site-specific—staged in the U.S. metropolitan area of Phoenix, Arizona. I directed the first, This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing, in February 2015, and one year later I collaborated with a youth artist to create and perform in The Light Rail Plays on the Valley Metro light rail commuter train system with Rising Youth Theatre. Through both productions, I sought to investigate potential ways in which risk might function dramaturgically in two different youth-focused performance environments. These diverse experiences taught me much about the ways in which I use risk (and its aversion) to negate and control the spaces in which I (claim to) seek to enable empowerment and action. Through this journey, I came to understand risky play as a powerful strategy to facilitate problem solving onstage.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"31 1","pages":"35 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2016.1278066","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41996586","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":"Into the Story 2: More Stories! More Drama!, by Carole Miller and Juliana Saxton","authors":"Matt Omasta","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2017.1301148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2017.1301148","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"31 1","pages":"75 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2017.1301148","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44447291","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":"Tell it with zest: The generative influence of storytelling on the origin of creative drama","authors":"R. B. Collins, Fiona G. Maxwell","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2017.1298543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2017.1298543","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In previous discussions of the factors that influenced the genesis of creative drama, the art of storytelling has been largely overlooked. Our archival studies indicate that Winifred Ward was steeped in oral traditions and storytelling from early childhood throughout her life. We have followed course descriptions and syllabi to determine that it was modifications of her initial storytelling classes that led to her work in creative dramatics. The legacy of this initial impact of storytelling can be observed in her narrative-based approach to drama with young people. This article presents storytelling as a missing piece of the puzzle, and invites us to consider implications for the future of our field.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"31 1","pages":"23 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2017.1298543","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42067397","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}
David Booth, Laura A. McCammon, Kari-Lynn Winters, Gillian L. Fournier, Mary Code
{"title":"Debra Hundert McLauchlan, 1951–2016","authors":"David Booth, Laura A. McCammon, Kari-Lynn Winters, Gillian L. Fournier, Mary Code","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2017.1301149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2017.1301149","url":null,"abstract":"The passing of Debra Hundert McLauchlan has left a giant space in the international educational world of drama and theatre. She was a force to be reckoned with, an advocate for arts education in the broadest sense—schools, universities, theatre groups, government—and always with the students front and center. She was a tireless worker for drama and theatre in and out of schools; a committed and dedicated teacher with both her secondary and university students; a respected, indeed cherished, colleague; and a special friend. As well, Debra played a significant role in different community-based partnerships, including the Carousel Players, the St. Catharines Museum, Shaw Festival, Theatre Ontario, and the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. Debra had taught drama in high school for almost fifteen years, directing and guiding more than sixty student productions, including several student-generated works. It was during her graduate courses at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto, beginning in 1993, that I began to notice her strengths in my courses in the arts in education and drama, and from those first days, I recognized her love of her subject and her belief in her students. She was extremely successful in her studies, and I then became her graduate advisor for her Ph.D. thesis. We met frequently during the next few years, Debra journeying by bus from St. Catharines to Toronto. Her thesis was based on her years of working with her drama students, supported by her studies and her readings. It was a pleasure working with her, developing her personal narrative, discussing new research and exploring different authors in her field, as well as in education in general. I learned so much from these Debra McLauchlan. Photo courtesy of Brock University.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"31 1","pages":"3 - 6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2017.1301149","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47294971","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":"Editor’s note","authors":"Beth Murray","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2017.1301147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2017.1301147","url":null,"abstract":"In reading responses from those memorializing the passing of our dear colleague and editorial board member, Debra Hundert McLauchlan, several adjectives recurred. Committed. Creative. Generous. Supportive. Caring. Nouns recurred, too. Drama. Theatre. Brock University. Mother. Grandmother. Wife. Friend. Students. One surprisingly consistent noun was “story.” Everyone mentioned how she told good stories and employed anecdotes; how she helped students tell stories through theatre and drama; how she taught and supported and wrote with story; how she made space and time for story— her’s and others’. Always. Of course, David Booth was her mentor. In their book Story Works (2000), Bob Barton and David Booth remind us:","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"31 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2017.1301147","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42127070","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}