Ethnodrama

An Anthology of Reality Theatre

Edited by Johnny Saldaña

Not available to order

Publication date:

04 February 2005

Length of book:

256 pages

Publisher

AltaMira Press

ISBN-13: 9780759114982

Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre contains seven carefully-selected ethnodramas that best illustrate this emerging genre of arts-based research, a burgeoning but evident trend in the field of theatre production itself. In his introduction to ethnodrama and to the plays themselves, Salda-a emphasizes how a credible, vivid, and persuasive rendering of a research participant's story as a theatrical performance creates insights for both researcher and audience not possible through conventional qualitative data analysis. With their focus on the personal, immediate and contextual, these plays about marginalized identities, abortion, street life and oppression manage a unique balance between theoretical research and everyday realism.

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Series Editors' Introduction
Chapter 3 Prologue: the theatre
Chapter 4 An Introduction to Ethnodrama
Chapter 5
Chapter One?Ethnodramatic Monologue
Chapter 6 Scenes from Voices in the Rain
Chapter 7 Scenes from 14
Chapter 8 Chalkboard Concerto: Growing Up as a Teacher in the Chicago Public Schools
Chapter 9
Chapter Two?Ethnodramatic Dialogue with Monologue
Chapter 10 Storm Tracking: Scenes of Marital Disintegration
Chapter 11 The Practice
Chapter 12 Wearing the Secret Out
Chapter 13
Chapter Three?Ethnodramatic Extensions
Chapter 14 Baddies, Grubs and the Nitty-Gritty
Chapter 15 Street Rat
Chapter 16 Hidden
Chapter 17 Appendix: Dramatic Models for Ethnodrama
Chapter 18 About the Contributors

Overall, the ethnodramas take us on a roller-coaster ride of themes, issues and emotions that leave a lasting impression. . . Saldaña's outstanding collection will generate valuable conversation in teaching, research and theatre contexts regarding both ists contents and methods. . . the book will provide a valuable resource for my graduate arts-based research classes, and food for thought in my own quest for 'finding the proper balance between research as art and art as research'. . . . Rich with examplesof high quality performative arts-based research, the book is a stimulating read?instructive and entertaining, as good theatre should be...