Playbuilding as Qualitative Research: A Participatory Arts-Based Approach

by Joe Norris

Book Overview

This book is for both art-based researchers and research-informed artists, exploring the theatrical genre known as Collective Creation, or Playbuilding. Performers generate data around chosen topics- from addiction and sexuality to qualitative research-by compiling scenes from their disparate voices. Audience members become involved in the investigation, and the performed scenes do not end the conversation but challenge and extend it. Through discussion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598744771
• ISBN13: 9781598744774
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.2"