Titlebook: Remapping Performance; Common Ground, Uncom Jan Cohen-Cruz Book 2015 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015 Applied theatre.c

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The Silence within the Noise: Reflections from the UK on “A Vibrant Hybridity”ly engaged theater over the last 50 years or so traces a contested history; there is a rich legacy of different perspectives and complementary voices that has contributed to diverse contemporary practices in the UK. Socially engaged theater also travels, and the networks and practices Jan describes

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The Breadth of Theatrical Territoryside the art world or as a form of action, other than at all-consuming moments of social turmoil.. More prevalent in the US has been an “either social or aesthetic” conception of performance, in the context of which artists committed to the social, beyond subject matter, have risked marginalization.

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Partneringhis chapter, I focus on different ways that theater professionals partner with other experts in social endeavors that are larger than any one discipline — what O’Neal refers to above as the movement being more important than the mover. I am equally interested in what art as an expression of culture