While our culture is very different from Shakespeare’s London, his plays — and those by others — still carry the potential to bring people together and help us think deeply about our shared experience.
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This form of community theatre is used all over the world for social and political activism, conflict resolution, and community building.
Banned 45 years ago, and its author detained, the Gikuyu language play Ngaahika Ndeenda profoundly shaped the literary legend.
With the community, the group of theatre-makers and academics created a play that could also serve as a policy brief on what’s missing from the battle to reduce drug use in Durban.
Safe spaces for conversations around immigrants’ experiences are important because identity is central to diversity and inclusion in the 21st century. Theatre can be a tool for community engagement.
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Senior Researcher in Educational Sociology at the Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University
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Full Professor/CRC in Socially Engaged Theatre; Director, C-SET, University of Regina
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Professor of Practice, Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications (GSMC)
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Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences, Nottingham Trent University
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PhD Candidate, Department of English, McGill University
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Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, McGill University