Publications
In 2013 the independent academic publishing company RODOPI published two volumes presented by Drama for Life that include the following research:
Volume 1: Applied Drama and Theatre as an interdisciplinary field in the context of HIV/Aids
Introduction by Hazel Barnes
Delineating the field:
Ch1: Negotiating the space, framing for understanding and performing for change: Opportunities and challenges for Applied theatre praxis in Hiv/Aids contextsby Patrick Mangeni
Ch 2: HIV Communication: Global Emergencies, Media Templates and African Communities (A Personal Journey) by David Kerr
Ch 3: Applied Art is still art, and by any other name would smell as sweet by Lynn Dalrymple
Ch 4: Postcards on the aesthetics of hope (in theatre) by Veronica Baxter
Innovations in HIV/Aids Awareness Education
Ch 4: The Lover and Another: a consideration of the efficacy of utilising a Performance Poetry Competition as vehicle for HIV/Aids education amongst young adults by Diana Wilson and Karen Suter
Ch 5: Do, Be, Do: Insights from “Rapid Cognition” in a theatre-making process by Selloane Mokuku
Ch 6: Space and Involvement – Theatre in (a) South African Prison by Johannes Visser
Innovations in Research Approaches
Ch 7: Appreciative inquiry – An Alternative Approach to Applied Theatre by Emelda Ngufor Samba
Ch 8: After the Curtain – reframed: Using Action Research to reflect, monitor and evaluate the Applied Theatre experience by Gordon Bilbrough
Ch 9: Researching the Theatricality and Aesthetics of Applied Theatre by Emma Durden
Ch 10: Collaboration as Research: Yale University, Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre, Clowns Without Borders South Africa, and People’s Educational Theatre Swaziland by Rebecca Ann Rugg
Ch 11: Participatory Theatre for Development as Action Research: Methodological, Theoretical and Ethical Challenges, Tensions and Possibilities with specific reference to an HIV/Aids and Disability Project (2007 - 2010) by Nehemiah Chivandikwa
Innovations in Research Practice/Theory
Ch 12: Dramatic Spaces in Patriarchal contexts: Constructions and disruptions of gender in theatre interventions about HIV by Alexandra Sutherland
Ch 13: This is My Story: A Model for Creating Performance Engaging Artists and People Living with HIV/AIDS by Galia Boneh
Ch 14: A poetics of contradictions? HIV/Aids interventions at the crossroads of localisation and globalisation by Kennedy Chinyowa
Ch 15: Project Njabulo: Using Storytelling, Drama, and Play Therapy for Psychosocial Interventions in Communities affected by HIV/Aids in Southern Africa – Pathways to Empathetic Locally Sustainable Care by Jamie Lachman
Innovative Case Studies
Ch 16: Dramatic Beading by Myer Taub
Ch 17: Evaluation of applied drama and theatre in HIV/Aids Interventions: A case study of Themba Interactive by Remo Chipatiso
Volume 2: Arts Activism, Education and Therapies: Transforming Communities Across Africa
Arts for Social Change
Ch 1: Imagination and agency: Facilitating social change through the visual arts by Kim Berman
Ch 2: Theatre in Combat with Violence: The University of Zimbabwe Department of Theatre Arts and Amani Trust Popular Travelling Theatre Project on Political Violence and Torture – Some Basic and Non-Basic Contradictions by Owen Seda and Nehemiah Chivandikwa
Ch 3: Dance as a communication tool to address inter-generational trauma for a healthier psycho-social environment in Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region of Africa by Theogene Niwenshuti
Ch 4: Exploring conflict management strategies through applied drama : A Wits University case study by Kennedy Chinyowa Ch 5: Dancing Drumming and Drawing the Unspeakable: an exploration of an arts-based programme as complimentary interventions in the diversion of youth sex offenders by Kristy Errington, Sheri Errington, Helen Oosthuizen and Ntombifuthi Sangweni
Arts for HIV/Aids education, prevention and rehabilitation
Ch 6: Dramatic Art at the Frontiers of Ontology: Reconsidering Aesthetics by Emelda Ngofur Samba
Ch 7: Christine’s Room: re/voicing the document by Myer Taub
Ch 8: Theatre as border crossing among women living with HIV: A Case Study of Zandspruit Informal Settlement by Tendai Mtukwa
Arts, Africa and Healing
Ch 9: Music, Musicality and Musicing: Between Therapy and Everyday Life by Mercedes Pavlicevic
Ch 10: Catharsis and Critical Reflection in IsiZulu Prison Theatre: A Case Study from Westville Correctional Facility in Durban by Christopher John
Ch 11: In Between Activism and Education: Intervention Theatre in Kenya by Christopher Odhiambo
Ch 12: Washa Mollo: Theatre as a Milieu for Conversations and Healing by Sara Matchett and Makgathi Mokwena
Ch 13: The Keep Them Safe 2010 Project: using story to structure a programme with sustainable impact for 7 000 children by Petro Janse van Vuuren
Ch 14: Elephant in the Theatre: The ethics and politics of narration in an international collaboration by Leigh Nudleman
Ch 15: Supporting educators to support learners: An art counselling intervention with educators by Michelle Booth
Ch 16: Performing Cultural Memory and the Symbolic in the Musical Theatre Traditions of the Basarwa in the Ghanzi District, Botswana by Connie Rapoo