In Our Sites: A Personal View of the Writer’s Role in Place-Making Theatre with, by, and for Communities

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Clifford, Sara. 2024. In Our Sites: A Personal View of the Writer’s Role in Place-Making Theatre with, by, and for Communities. In: Jess Moriarty and Kate Aughterson, eds. Socially Engaged Creative Practice: Contemporary Case Studies. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 17-38. ISBN 9781789388879 [Book Section]

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My recent theatre writing work aims to create theatre that tells a community’s story and locate it in a place that is local and not a traditional theatre space, to engender ownership and therefore be more likely to engage, participate and be spectators in both the process and product, and to offer opportunities for all to experience that art.

Using a range of recent projects as case studies, this chapter will explore and reflect on my role as the writer in this now established model, of rooting the project in the local community, collecting local stories, memories and writings, running workshops with various community groups, and including local community groups in the final performances, with a script that I write. Informed by this research, the work explores the complex inter-relationship of place and community and challenges our perceptions of culture and society.

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Book Section

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© Sara Clifford, 2024. The definitive, peer reviewed and edited version of this chapter is published in Socially Engaged Creative Practice: Contemporary Case Studies, pp. 17-38, 2024, https://www.intellectbooks.com/socially-engaged-creative-practice.

Keywords:

Performance; communities; site specific; participatory; socially engaged

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Theatre and Performance (TAP)

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