Acknowledgements Preface How is applied drama different applied theatre? How to read this book? Chapter one: Introduction to the Filed 1.1 What is applied drama? 1.2 Who does applied drama and what are the benefits? 1.3 How is applied drama done? 1.4 What is the nature of applied drama? 1.5 Questions for Reflection, Suggested Activity and Further Reading Chapter two: Foundations of the Field 2.1 What is the nature of dramatic process? 2.2 How does the key component of role function in applied drama? 2.
3 How does the component of improvisation function in applied drama? 2.4 What are the challenges of applied drama? 2.5 Questions for Reflection, Suggested Activity and Further Reading Section One: Entering the Process Chapter Three: Building a Community 3.1 Learning about Participants 3.2 Entering a community/drama contract 3.3 Creating a safe space 3.4 Drama structure: Investing the Circle 3.5 Questions for Reflection, Suggested Activity and Further Reading Chapter Four: Risking, Trusting and Being 4.
1 Building trust/creating community 4.2 Encouraging risk-taking/accepting failure 4.3 Creating composite characters 4.4 Drama Structure: Being 14 4.5 Questions for Reflection, Suggested Activity and Further Reading Chapter Five: Role Playing 5.1 Using role Play 5.2 Levels and dynamics of role 5.3 About Sitting-Down Drama 5.
4 Drama structure: Sitting-Down Drama 5.5 Questions for Reflection, Suggested Activity and Further Reading Chapter Six: Embodying Thought and Feeling 6.1 Communicating with our bodies 6.2 Balancing the mind-body relationship 6.3 Exploring movement through music 6.4 Drama Structure: Interpreting Music as Dramatic Text 6.5 Questions for Reflection, Suggested Activity and Further Reading Section Two: Exploring Together Chapter Seven: Talking and Listening 7.1 Fostering communication 7.
2 Drawing on personal histories 7.3 Distancing through narrative voice 7.4 Drama structure: Life Lessons 7.5 Questions for Reflection and Further Reading Chapter Eight: Topics, Themes, Talk and Action 8.1 Generating ideas and materials 8.2 What is a theme? 8.3 Tableaux and Image Theatre 8.4 Drama Structure: Exploring a Theme 8.
5 Questions for Reflection, Suggested Activity and Further Reading Chapter Nine: Improvisation 9.1 Learning to improvise 9.2 Vocabulary of improvisation 9.3 Ways to improvise 9.4 Drama Structure: Improvising from a Source 9.5 Questions for Reflection, Suggested Activity and Further Reading Section Three: Focusing the Work Chapter Ten: Moving into Devising 10.1 Deciding to share the work 102. Conducting research and the RSVP Cycle 10.
3 Sharing research through drama 10.4 Drama Strategies: Working with Research in Dramatic Ways 10.5 Questions for Reflection: Suggested Activity and Further Reading Chapter Eleven: Creating Monologues 11.1 Collaborative solo speech 11.2 From the personal to the political 11.3 From nonfictional to fictional representation 11.4 Drama structure: Generating and Working with Monologues 11.5 Questions for Reflection, Suggested Activity and Further Reading Chapter Twelve: Crafting Scenes 12.
1 Panning for gold 12.2 Understanding dramatic structure 12.3 Reviewing and reflecting on improved scenes 12.4 Drama structure: Improving Scenes from Research Materials 12.5 Questions for Reflection, Suggested Activity and Further Reading Chapter Thirteen: Modes of Sharing 13.1 Thinking about the audience 13.1 Putting it all together 13.3 Processing the process 13.
4 Drama Strategies: Ideas for Presentation 13.5 Questions for Reflection, Suggested Activity and Further Reading Chapter Fourteen: Reflecting, Exiting and Assessing 14.1 Reflecting on Presentation 14.2 Reflecting on the Process 14.3 Exiting a Community 14.4 Reporting strategies 14.5 Summary Appendices Bibliography Index.