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This book is a collection of essays by playwrights, directors, devisers, scholars, and educators whose praxis involves representing, theorizing, and performing social trauma.
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List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsPART IIntroduction1. Theatre and Social Trauma: Introduction and Overview
Ellen W. Kaplan2. The Story Before the Script: Documenting and testifying to trauma histories of incarcerated persons
Julie KrieglerPART IIExiles: Loss of Language, Loss of Home3. Weaving Personal Trauma in Video Opera "THE WArDROBE": Transdisciplinarity and Womanhood
Nerina Cocchi4. Lampedusa Beach: A Voice from the Depths of the Sea
Anna Botta5. Interview with playwright Lina Prosa
Anna Botta and Nerina Cocchi6. The Theater of Arístides Vargas: Antidote Against Death
María Estela Harretche7. Bearing Witness to the "Unspeakable"? Poetry writing in the aftermath of the Êzîdî Genocide
Mairead SmithPART IIITheatre Companies Wrestle with Social Trauma8. A Serpent's Tale: The Work of
El Teatro Indigena de la Sierra TarahumaraGabriel Harrell9. Witness Theater: The Power of Embodied Storytelling
Sally Grazi-Shatzkes10. Resistance: Theatre as Protest and Reckoning
Jean-Remy Monnay11. Life Suspended: Theatre as Social Practice in Afghanistan
Abdul-Hakim Hashemi Hamidi12. Contemporary Kenyan Theatre as a Response to the Traumas of Colonialism
Aroji Otieno13. Community as Theatre: Shakespeare Festival in St. Louis and Community Partnerships
Mariah L. Richardson14. Interviews with Dominic Dupont and Marjolaine Goldsmith of Theater of War
Ellen W. Kaplan15. Trauma and Morality in Classical Greek Drama: Trauma and Authentic Accountability Before the Christian Era
Len BerkmanPART IVProcesses of Embodiment16. Interview with Carol Gilligan
Ellen W. Kaplan17. Interview with Trenda Loftin
Ellen W. Kaplan18. Pedagogies of Embodied Healing: Devised Theatre and Reciprocal Empathy
Zoe Rose Kriegler-WenkPART VClosing the Gaps: Social Trauma and Text19. Empathy, Imagination, and Embodiment: Turning Document into Fiction
Alex Poppe20. Calls to Action: Collaboration across Difference
Catherine Filloux21. AFTERWORD
Ellen W. KaplanIndex
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Ellen W. Kaplan is Professor of Acting and Directing at Smith College, a Fulbright Scholar, Fulbright Senior Specialist, an actress, director, and playwright.
