Messy Connections - Creating Atmospheres of Addiction Recovery Through Performance

This book examines performance practices that involve people in recovery from addiction and offers an understanding of how artistic activity can create social environments - or atmospheres - that support recovery.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Assembling Atmospheres of Recovery through Artistic Practice
Chapter 1: Creating Spaces of Potentiality through Collaborative Theatre-making
Chapter 2: Facilitating Recovery-engaged Performance Atmospheres
Chapter 3: Objects of Addiction and Recovery in Artistic Practice
Chapter 4: Place in Recovery-engaged Performances
Chapter 5: Sustaining Recovery Connections through Creative Kinship
Coda: Addiction Recovery Arts Network
Index

About the author

Cathy Sloan is a Senior Lecturer in Applied and Socially Conscious Theatre at the University of West London. She is co-founder of the Addiction-Recovery Arts network and Performing Recovery magazine. Her artistic practice specialises in a recovery-engaged ethos of collaborative theatre-making, specifically with addressing lived experiences addiction and associated wellbeing issues.

Product details

• Authors: Cathy Sloan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032220710
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3222071-0
• No. of pages: 122
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Sociology, PHILOSOPHY / General, Theatre, The arts: general issues, SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / General, PERFORMING ARTS / General, PHILOSOPHY / Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs, SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcohol, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Addiction & therapy, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, Psychotherapy, Theatre Studies, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Addiction and therapy, Performance Art, Medical Sociology, The arts: general topics, Health, illness or addiction: social aspects