Theatre of Witness: Finding the Medicine in Stories of Suffering, Transformation, and Peace by Sepinuck, Teya

Theatre of Witness: Finding the Medicine in Stories of Suffering, Transformation, and Peace (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781849053822)

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Theatre of Witness: Finding the Medicine in Stories of Suffering, Transformation, and Peace by Sepinuck, Teya

Theatre of Witness: Finding the Medicine in Stories of Suffering, Transformation, and Peace

$29.95
Theatre of Witness: Finding the Medicine in Stories of Suffering, Transformation, and Peace by Sepinuck, Teya

Theatre of Witness: Finding the Medicine in Stories of Suffering, Transformation, and Peace

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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Theatre of Witness is a model of performance that gives voice to those who have been marginalized, forgotten or unheard in society, creating a safe forum for audiences to bear witness to real-life accounts of suffering and transformation. This book chronicles the author's 26 years of creating and producing theatre with people whose stories have previously gone untold, including: prisoners and their families, refugees, immigrants, survivors and perpetrators of domestic abuse, ex-combatants, teenage runaways, people living in poverty or without homes, families of murder victims, women in transition, people in recovery and survivors of war. With an engaging and heartfelt narrative, it beautifully conveys the key principles of Theatre of Witness and explores the author's own journey that led to the conception and growth of this unique model of performance.

Exploring diverse human experiences in the United States, Poland and Northern Ireland, this book will be of interest to practitioners and students of applied theatre, peace and conflict studies, professionals working in conflict resolution, counselors, psychotherapists, professionals in the field of criminal and restorative justice, dramatherapists, psychodramatists and spiritual seekers.

Author: Teya Sepinuck
ISBN-10: 1849053820
ISBN-13: 9781849053822
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2013
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
By Teya Sepinuck
By Teya Sepinuck
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Teya Sepinuck is the founder and director of Theatre of Witness. For the past 26 years, she has been creating and producing Theatre of Witness projects with prisoners and their families, survivors and perpetrators of abuse, refugees, immigrants, elders, and those who have lived through war. In 1991, Teya founded 'TOVA - Artistic Projects for Social Change' through which she created and produced more than 40 original Theatre of Witness works. She has been the recipient of the Philadelphia Human Rights Award for Arts and Culture, a Local Hero Award from the Bank of America, as well as the Cultural Arts Award from Women's Way and the Mayor's Commission on Women. Her work has taken her to Poland and Northern Ireland, where she is currently engaged in her second two-year residency at the Playhouse in Derry/Londonderry, creating works with ex-combatants, members of security forces, survivors, witnesses, and those living with the intergenerational legacy of the 'Troubles.'

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