A Space to Speak: Therapeutic Theater to Address Gender-Based Violence

A Space to Speak: Therapeutic Theater to Address Gender-Based Violence

This article examines the experience of eight graduate students in the drama therapy program at Lesley University when creating and performing a theater piece centered around gender-based violence. The performance piece, A Space to Speak, used the performers’ real-life stories to highlight their vas...

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Published in:Violence against women Vol. 26; no. 14; pp. 1771 - 1789
Main Authors: Arias, Gabrielle, Dennis, Christina, Loo, Stephenie, Lazier, Amy Larson, Moye, Kathleen D., Moye, Kathleen, O’Connor, Chelsey, Rich, Anna, Weinberg, Molly, Butler, Jason D.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01-11-2020
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects:
Audiences
College students
Drama
Drama therapy
Ethnography
Female
Gender-Based Violence
Graduate students
Health Education
Humans
Life history
Male
Narration
Psychodrama
Students
Theater
Universities
devised theater
performance ethnography
drama therapy
performance
therapeutic theater
gender-based violence
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Summary:This article examines the experience of eight graduate students in the drama therapy program at Lesley University when creating and performing a theater piece centered around gender-based violence. The performance piece, A Space to Speak, used the performers’ real-life stories to highlight their vastly different, yet strikingly similar, experiences and invited the audience to examine their own relationship to those stories. A description of the process used to create and perform the piece is followed by a discussion of the impact the process had on the performers and audience members.
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ISSN:1077-8012
1552-8448
DOI:10.1177/1077801220942835