On Ethical Questioning

Afolabi, T. (2021). Theorizing ethical questioning for applied theatre practice. Applied Theatre  Research, 9(2), 99–116.

Afolabi, T., & Llewellyn, J. (2022). Ethics and research-based theatre: Reflections from two practitioners. Drama Res, 13, 1–24.

Aviles-Rodriguez, G., Cole, P., Harmon, R., & Mee, E.B. (2019). Ethics and site-based theatre: A curated discussion. Theatre History Studies, 38(1), 166–195.

Brodzinski, E., & Evans, T. (2018). Ethics, theatre, and judgement. In Art in social work practice (pp. 18–28). Routledge.

Kerr, D. (2009). Ethics of applied theatre. South African Theatre Journal, 23(1), 177–187.

Lazarus, J. (2005). Ethical questions in secondary theatre education. Arts Education Policy Review, 107(2), 21–25.

Read, A. (2003). Theatre and everyday life: An ethics of performance. Routledge.

Salverson, J. (2001). Performing testimony, ethics, pedagogy, and a theatre beyond injury [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

White, V., & Belliveau, G. (2010). Whose story is it anyway? Exploring ethical dilemmas in performed research. Performing Ethos: International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance, 1(1), 85–95.

On Participation

Abah, O.S. (2013). Creativity, participation and change in theatre for development practice. In The performance arts in Africa (pp. 158–173). Routledge.

Afolabi, T. (2026). Applied theatre: Participation. Bloomsbury.

Afolabi, T. (2016). Theatre and participation: A critical examination of Sherry Arnstein’s ladder of participation in the Kamiriithu theatre experience. Applied Theatre Research, 4(3), 205–221.

Afolabi, T. (2017). Theatre and participation: Towards a holistic notion of participation. Applied Theatre Research, 5(2), 67–82.

Aragay, M., & Monforte, E. (2016). Introduction: Theatre and spectatorship–meditations on participation, agency and trust. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 4(1), 3–20.

Foreman, B. (2018). Hope with dirty hands: Community theatre participation as activism in everything is possible. ArtsPraxis, 5(2).

Gallagher, K. (2014). Why theatre matters: Urban youth, engagement, and a pedagogy of the real. University of Toronto Press.

McCarthy, J., & Galvão, K. (2012). Theatre, participation and empowerment. In Enacting participatory development (pp. 107–112). Routledge.

Torrissen, W., & Stickley, T. (2018). Participatory theatre and mental health recovery: A narrative inquiry. Perspectives in Public Health, 138(1), 47–54.

White, G. (2006). Navigating the ethics of audience participation. Applied Theatre Researcher, 7(1), 1–10.

White, G. (2013). Audience participation (Vol. 4). Palgrave.

On Drama Curriculum

Al-Yamani, H., Attallah, S., & Alsawayfa, F. (2016). The curriculum in the Palestinian Territories: Drama processes in theatre making and self-liberation. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 21(1), 60–75.

Dolan, J. (1997). Advocacy and activism: Identity, curriculum, and theatre studies in the twenty-first century. Theatre Topics, 7(1), 1–10.

Neelands, J. (2009). The art of togetherness: Reflections on some essential artistic and pedagogic qualities of drama curricula. NJ, 33(1), 9–18.

O’Hara, M. (1984). Drama in education: A curriculum dilemma. Theory into Practice, 23(4), 314–320.

O’Neill, C. (2018). Context or essence: The place of drama in the curriculum. In Issues in educational drama (1983) (pp. 25–32). Routledge.

O’Toole, J. (2009). Drama and curriculum: A giant at the door. Springer.

O’Toole, J., & O’Mara, J. (2007). Proteus, the giant at the door: Drama and theater in the curriculum. In International handbook of research in arts education (pp. 203–218). Springer Netherlands.

Prendergast, M., & Shenfield, R. (2019). From theatre to performance studies: Collaborating on curriculum change with secondary level dramatic arts teachers. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 24(2), 118–132.

Stinson, M., & Saunders, J.N. (2016). Drama in the Australian national curriculum: Decisions, tensions and uncertainties. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre  and Performance, 21(1), 93–104.

Tandy, M., & Howell, J. (2009). Creating drama with 4–7 year olds: Lesson ideas to integrate drama into the primary curriculum. Routledge.

Tandy, M., & Howell, J. (2009). Creating drama with 7–11 year olds: Lesson ideas to integrate drama into the primary curriculum. David Fulton Publishers.

On Facilitation

Balfour, M. (2016). The art of facilitation: ’T’aint what you do (it’s the way that you do it). In Facilitation: Pedagogies, practices, resilience (pp. 151–164). Bloomsbury.

Carver, R.K. (2023). Stagecraft fundamentals: A guide and reference for theatrical production. Routledge.

Frank, F., Badham, M., Hemphill, S., & Niskala, B. (eds). (2010). Artist and community collaboration: A toolkit for community projects. Common Weal Community Arts.

Goldstein, J. (2012). Theatre, facilitation and nation formation in the Balkans and Middle East. Theatre Journal, 64(3), 462–463.

Hart, S.A. (2022). Affective facilitation: Applied theatre and (de)humanization [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of California, Davis.

Johnson, F.M. (2007). The drama teacher’s survival guide: A complete handbook for play direction (Vol. 1). Meriwether Publishing.

Johnson, F.M. (2011). The drama teacher’s survival guide: Activities, exercises, and techniques for the theatre classroom (Vol. 2). Meriwether Publishing.

Kincman, L. (2024). The stage manager’s toolkit: Templates and communication techniques to guide your theatre production from first meeting to final performance. Routledge.

Loui, A. (2009). The physical actor: Exercises for action and awareness. Routledge.

Mitchell, K. (2008). The director’s craft: A handbook for the theatre. Routledge.

Norman, T., Adelman, R.B., & Silverman, L.B. (2016). Facilitating social justice dialogues after interactive theatre performances: An introduction to our methodology. ArtsPraxis, 3.

Orr, S.H. (2015). Training the peer facilitator: Using participatory theatre to promote engagement in peer education. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 20(1), 110–116.

Rae, J. (2013). Facilitating learning spaces in forum theatre. European Journal of Training and Development, 37(2), 220–236.

Spolin, V. (2011). Theatre games for rehearsal: A director’s handbook. Northwestern University Press.

Thudium, L. (1999). Stage makeup: The actor’s complete guide to today’s techniques and materials. Back Stage Books.

Wilson, H.R. (2012). The director of devised theatre: Facilitating, collaboration, ownership and empowerment [Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Glasgow].

On Devising and Collective Performance Creation

Behrndt, S.K. (2023). Models of creation and devising. In The Routledge companion to contemporary European theatre and performance (pp. 367–373). Routledge.

D’Cruz, G., Dennis, R., Prior, Y., Hunter, K., & Luckhurst, M. (2023). Devising in the twenty-first-century university: Contexts, constraints and creative messiness. In Off book (pp.119–137). Intellect.

Grecea, O. (2015). Collective creation (devised theatre). Interferences and Interdisciplinarity. Colocvii teatrale, (19), 201–209.

Mermikides, A., & Smart, J. (2017). Devising in process. Bloomsbury.

Milling, J., & Heddon, D. (2015). Devising performance: A critical history. Bloomsbury.

Oddey, A. (2013). Devising theatre: A practical and theoretical handbook. Routledge.

Perry, M. (2013). Devising theatre and consenting bodies in the classroom. In Cartographies of  becoming in education (pp. 93–108). Brill.

Syssoyeva, K.M., & Proudfit, S. (Eds.). (2016). Women, collective creation, and devised performance: The rise of women theatre artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Springer.

Székely, É.H. (2016). Approaches to the concept of devised theatre. Symbolon, 17(31), 16–23.

On Methods and Methodologies

Carlson, M. (1995). Theatre history, methodology and distinctive features. Theatre Research  International, 20(2), 90–96.

Grandi, G.L. (2022). Theatre as method: Performance creation through action research. Action Research, 20(3), 245–260.

Grant, S. (2012). Genealogies and methodologies of phenomenology in theatre and performance studies. Nordic Theatre Studies, 24, 8–20

Kershaw, B. (Ed.). (2011). Research methods in theatre and performance. Edinburgh University Press.

Marín, C. (2007). A methodology rooted in praxis: Theatre of the oppressed (TO) techniques employed as arts-based educational research methods. Youth Theatre Journal, 21(1), 81–93.

Norris, J. (2000). Drama as research: Realizing the potential of drama in education as a research methodology. Youth theatre journal, 14(1), 40–51.

Rozik, E. (2007). Generating theatre meaning: A theory and methodology of performance analysis. Liverpool University Press.

On Research-Based Theatre

Belliveau, G. (2015). Performing identity through research-based theatre: Brothers. Journal of Educational Enquiry, 14(1), 5–16.

Belliveau, G., Cox, S., Nichols, J., Lea, G.W., & Cook, C. (2020). Examining the ethics of research-based theatre through Contact! Unload. In The Routledge companion to applied performance (pp. 141–148). Routledge.

Bird, J., & Donelan, K. (2020). An interactive ethnographic performance: Using research-based theatre and drama pedagogy to enhance meaning making. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 25(2), 218–235.

Brinkmann, S., Brescó, I., Kofod, E.H., Køster, A., Overvad, A.T., Petersen, A., . . . & Winther-Lindqvist, D. (2019). The presence of grief: Research-based art and arts-based research on grief. Qualitative Inquiry, 25(9–10), 915–924.

Cox, S., Guillemin, M., Nichols, J., & Prendergast, M. (2023). Ethics in research-based theater: Why stories matter. Qualitative Inquiry, 29(2), 247–256.

Duncan, D. (2024). Theatrical research-based performance: An analytic method using theatre in an educational context. In The handbook of creative data analysis (pp. 158–172). Policy Press.

Hershler, L. (2020). Four quadrants of research-based theatre [Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia].

Shigematsu, T., Lea, G.W., Cook, C., & Belliveau, G. (2022). A spotlight on research-based theatre. LEARNing Landscapes, 15(1), 349–365.

Stuttaford, M.C., Bryanston, C., & Harrison, C. (2019). “Research usually sits on shelves, through the play it was shared.” Co-producing knowledge through post-show discussions of research-based theatre. Frontiers in Sociology, 4, 48.

Mitchell, G.J., Dupuis, S., Jonas-Simpson, C., Whyte, C., Carson, J., & Gillis, J. (2011). The experience of engaging with research-based drama: Evaluation and explication of synergy and transformation. Qualitative Inquiry, 17(4), 379–392.

On Storytelling

Alrutz, M. (2014). Digital storytelling, applied theatre, & youth: Performing possibility. Routledge.

Alrutz, M. (2015). Digital storytelling and youth: Toward critically engaged praxis. Youth Theatre  Journal, 29(1), 1–14.

Alrutz, M. (2013). Sites of possibility: Applied theatre and digital storytelling with youth. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 18(1), 44–57.

Bauman, R. (2008). Storytelling and theatre: Contemporary storytellers and their art. Fabula, 49(1–2), 191.

Biggin, R., & Biggin, R. (2017). Play the story: An approach to narrative in immersive theatre. In Immersive theatre and audience experience: Space, game and story in the work of  Punchdrunk (pp. 157–176). Palgrave Macmillan.

Butterwick, S. (2002). Your story/my story/our story: Performing interpretation in participatory theatre. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 48(3). https://doi.org/10.55016/ojs/ajer.v48i3.54931

Campbell, T., & Hlusek, M. (2015). Storytelling for fluency and flair: A Performance‐Based Approach. Reading Teacher, 69(2), 157–161.

Heinemeyer, C. (2020). Storytelling in participatory arts with young people: The gaps in the story. Springer Nature.

Langellier, K., & Peterson, E. (2004). Storytelling in daily life: Performing narrative. Temple University Press.

Mundel, I. (2003). Radical storytelling: Performing process in Canadian popular theatre. Theatre  Research in Canada, 24(1), 147–170.

Thompson, J. (2005). Digging up stories: Applied theatre, performance and war. Manchester University Press.

Wilson, M. (2005). Storytelling and theatre: Contemporary professional storytellers and their art. Palgrave Macmillan.

Games and Activities

Barker, C. (1989). Games in education and theatre. New Theatre Quarterly, 5(19), 227–235.

Barker, C. (2010). Theatre games: A new approach to drama training. A&C Black.

Elliott, M. (2020). We play as we mean to resist: Theatre games as political participation. In The Routledge companion to applied performance (pp. 245–253). Routledge.

Jackson, A., & Boal, A. (2005). Games for actors and non-actors. Routledge.

Johnston, C. (1998). House of games: Making theatre from everyday life. Routledge.

Johnstone, K. (1978). Theatre games. Ambit, (74), 57–64.

Orbach, O. (2019). Drawing as performance: Theatrical games and techniques for visual artists. Routledge.

Thomas, K.A. (2022). Playful performance: Gameplay and theatre in the early Middle Ages. European Medieval Drama, 26, 185–214.

Turner, T.A.J. (2013). Performing design: Game design, practice, praxis and the theatre of the impressed. Journal of Creative Technologies, (3), 1–14.