Participatory Theatre in India
Date
2025-12-27
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Type
Book chapter
Peer reviewed
Yes
Abstract
This entry discusses participatory theater in India. Participatory theater is a dramatic mode in which audience members contribute to the ideas or plotlines of a performance, or engage as actors themselves. We illustrate this with an account of a community play in a low-income neighborhood in India, produced as part of an interdisciplinary, collaborative global public health partnership that aimed to explore the mental health challenges and opportunities for resilience for internal migrants in Pune, India using theater storytelling practices.
Description
This was a cross faculty research project with HLS based on AHRC funding project 2017-2020
Keywords
Applied theater, community theater, participation, resilience, storytelling
Citation
Barrett, A. and Crossley, M. (2025) Participatory Theatre in India. In: Crawford, P., Kadetz, P. (eds) Palgrave Encyclopaedia of the Health Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan
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Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
Research Institute
Institute of Arts, Design and Performance