Community Engaged Theatre and Performance

This collection of new and previously published writing presents artists and scholars exploring neighbourhood, aesthetics, politics, and social change in English Canada. These essays include in-depth analysis of the community play in Canada, storytelling in law and critical ...This collection of new and previously published writing presents artists and scholars exploring neighbourhood, aesthetics, politics, and social change in English Canada. These essays include in-depth analysis of the community play in Canada, storytelling in law and critical pedagogy, the politics of negotiating community, and glimpses into projects ranging from inside Matsqui Penitentiary to Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, a Toronto mental-health care facility to under the Bathurst Street Bridge, from Caravan's BC woods to inside a Newfoundland mine.

A companion to Popular Political Theatre and Performance, volume seventeen in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English.