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Theatre and Social Change


For more information about the Theatre and Social Change focus group, click here to send an e-mail to the focus group leadership.Theatre and Social Change

The purpose of the Theatre and Social Change focus group of ATHE is to:

  1. Recognize the role that theatre with a conscious social perspective has played in the history of world theatre.
  2. Promote the research and practice of theatre whose specific focus is the dynamic relationship between theatre and society, and especially cultural analysis and theatre practice and theory which sees itself as an agent for social criticism and/or change.
  3. Serve as a focus point for studying those theatres that have created theatre-making processes that can serve as model processes for social change (e.g., collaborative approaches, audience choice, group membership).
  4. Incorporate as part of the analysis and training process the discoveries made in cultures historically ignored by the west (e.g., the Third World) such as community animation and theatre for community action.
  5. Provide a network through which those making and/or studying people's, political, and otherwise socially active theatre can share work, theory, and support.


Officers
Focus Group Rep ('06-'08)
Melanie Blood
blood@geneseo.edu

Conference Planner ('05-'07)
Michael Mufson
mmufson@cox.net

Conference Planner elect ('06-'07, becomes CP '07-'09)
Amy Sarno
sarnofra@beloit.edu

Secretary/Treasurer
Peter Harrigan
pharrigan@smcvt.edu

Membership Secretary
Susanne and Dahlia Basiouny
daliadiva@yahoo.com

Graduate Student Rep
Ben Saypol
Benjamin.Saypol@colorado.edu

Newsletter Editor
Robin Stone

Web Page Maintenance
Michael Mufson
mmufson@cox.net


TASC is now accepting proposals for sessions at ATHE 2007 in New Orleans, where we hope to actively engage the local community and post-Katrina issues. Deadline is November 1, 2006.


Visit the TASC website at http://daphne.palomar.edu/mmufson/tasc/. E-mail the focus group at tasc@athe.org. Subscribe to the TASC list serv by visiting http://mail.geneseo.edu/mailmain/listinfo/tasc1.


 


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