{"title":"Before Ballet Shoes: Noel Streatfeild’s The Children’s Matinée","authors":"S. Stokes","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2020.1849926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2020.1849926","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores eight short plays by Noel Streatfeild (1895–1986), seven of which a cast of children and adults performed as a fundraiser in an Eastbourne, East Sussex home, probably in early 1934. Heinemann published the Eastbourne pieces, bound with the eighth play, as The Children’s Matinée in a single volume later that year. The article covers Streatfeild’s background as actress, playwright, producer, and novelist; her literary toolkit, including her familiarity with stories, drama, music, and popular culture from ancient times to the 1930s; and her role in creating an intergenerational environment for the production of these plays.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"4 1","pages":"165 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2020.1849926","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59418917","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":"Who dis ... new phone: Considering engaged intergenerational storytelling: partnership, participation and pandemic","authors":"Benedicta Akley-Quarshie, Jamal Brooks-Hawkins, Stephani Etheridge Woodson, Angela Pinholster","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2020.1842829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2020.1842829","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay takes as its starting point a creative aging project in partnership with the Mesa Arts Center’s, Art in Mind Program; TimeSlips (founded by MacArthur Fellow Ann Basting); and a Projects in Community-Based Theatre graduate course at Arizona State University within the Theatre for Youth and Community MFA and PhD programs. This non-memory-based storytelling collaboration focused on elders living with memory loss and/or dementia and centered a core theatre for youth value — all humans deserve to participate in creative and cultural life no matter their age, neuro-cognitive or physical abilities. A parallel focus of the collaboration was the belief that such creative engagements also allow elder-care systems and families to benefit from participating with their residents and loved-ones — impacting adaptive and expressive creativity, emotional connections, and joyful participation in imaginative life.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":"118 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2020.1842829","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49031602","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":"Speaking in Shakespeare’s voice: A guide for American actors","authors":"Will Weigler","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2020.1852141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2020.1852141","url":null,"abstract":"In the interest of full disclosure, I will admit that I was predisposed to love this book. I am one of those Shakespeare geeks who swoons easily whenever I am reading or hearing his sumptuous langu...","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":"176 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2020.1852141","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42218024","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":"There’s Something in the Air: An intergenerational community performance exploring issues of health and inequality in Singapore","authors":"Natalie Lazaroo","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2020.1842830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2020.1842830","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This is a descriptive account of an intergenerational project between Theatre for Seniors and The Community Theatre in Singapore. The project explores the relationship between health and inequality through a devised performance titled Something in the Air, in reference to the country’s regular occurrences of transboundary haze. Drawing on observation notes and conversations with the participants, the paper reflects on the complex learning opportunities that emerge when creating community performance not only on an intergenerational level but one where class and ethnic diversity also come into play.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":"136 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2020.1842830","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45470677","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":"Mind the Gap! A transatlantic, intergenerational theatre project","authors":"G. Foster","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2020.1842831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2020.1842831","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This practitioner reflection explores the impact of a long-term inter-generational theatre project operating at the intersection between community and professional theatre practices in south-east London. The work developed through a creative partnership established between London South Bank University School of Performance, Southwark Playhouse and the New York Theatre Workshop whose intergenerational programme, Mind the Gap began in 2009. In this critically reflective essay, I seek to interrogate the precise nature of the impact of Mind the Gap! UK, derived from working with professional artists and processes within a community context. Writing in the journal of Health Promotion Practice, Anderson et al. observe that developing theatre performances from participants’ own experience and stories creates a “unique space that release(s) participants from usual ways of thinking and interacting” and this has certainly proved to be true for the Mind the Gap! ensembles. In order to understand how and what impact is generated, I will evaluate the key artistic and theatre practices which underpin the work and consider the precise nature of the effect of taking part in the project for both youth and elder participants.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":"146 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2020.1842831","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48953339","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":"Reevaluating intergenerational performance in the time of COVID-19","authors":"E. Hughes, Angela Sweigart-Gallagher","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2020.1853967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2020.1853967","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":"114 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2020.1853967","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46241061","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":"Intergenerational and interdisciplinary, service through oral history in Appalachia: History, community and place","authors":"Kelly Bremner","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2020.1852140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2020.1852140","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":"142 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2020.1852140","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48867564","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 magic space. Once upon a time intergenerational storytelling and Mr. Neoliberalism","authors":"Esther Uria-Iriarte, E. Méndez-Martínez","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2020.1842832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2020.1842832","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article is a story told to a young boy by his grandmother. Once upon a time, there existed a place where listening to stories was a way of life. This happened in all places around the world: Lakota and Navajo tribes of North America; Yoruba and Guji-Oromo in Africa; Estonian or Basque Country in Europe … But suddenly, the titan Mr. Neoliberalism displaced the elders: casting its shadow and silencing places. Economic production became all-consuming and human beings used almost all their energies pursuing it. And then, hope emerged as intergenerational performance. Some communities participating in this type of performance – Reminiscence Theatre and Verbatim Theatre, for example – recovered the collective power of storytelling to educate both the young and old about values, culture, identities and history … Storytelling invites ways to know who we are, where we come from, and where we belong: storytelling as hope, storytelling as a dream, storytelling as a magic space where imagining other realities is possible.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":"158 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2020.1842832","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49516675","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":"Intergenerational process drama: Practitioner reflection on creative adventures in an acute hospital context","authors":"N. Abraham, Jolyon James, E. McGeorge","doi":"10.1080/08929092.2020.1842833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2020.1842833","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This reflection will offer insights into the methodology of process drama as a tool for intergenerational connection, co-intentional pedagogy, and playfulness for children collaborating with older adult patients living with dementia. Providing insights into the adaption of conventional models of process drama drawing on the work of Cecily O’Neill, this reflection considers the key lessons learnt from two years of Intergen, a project funded by Imperial Health Charity. Though the project itself incorporated multiple art forms, this piece will focus on intergenerational process drama to share insights into the way the practice evolved to engage both older adult patients and children in acute hospital contexts.","PeriodicalId":38920,"journal":{"name":"Youth Theatre Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":"127 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08929092.2020.1842833","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46415853","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}