Refugee Performance

Michael Balfour is chair of the Centre for the Arts in Development Communication. His previous books include Performance: In Place of War and Drama as Social Intervention.

'A commendable resource'

• Chapter 1: Iraqi Memories: A Personal and Poetic Exploration of Homecomings, Departures and Arrivals from a Theatre Director Who Fled Iraq in 1987 and Returns Home Again – Niz JabourChapter 2: On Stitches – Michael Balfour and Nina WoodrowChapter 3: Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp: Performance, Communication, and Culture – Dwight ConquergoodChapter 4: Play Extract: Forged in Fire – A performance text created by Okello Kelo Sam, Laura Edmondson, and Robert AjwangChapter 5: Narrative Theatre as an Interactive Community Approach to Mobilizing Collective Action in Northern Uganda – Yvonne Sliep, Kaethe Weingarten, and Andrew GilbertChapter 6: Marketing Trauma and the Theatre of War in Northern Uganda – Laura EdmondsonChapter 7: Encounters in the Aida Refugee Camp in Palestine: Travel Notes on Attending Alrowwad Theatre’s Production of Handala (2011) – Rand T. HazouChapter 8: Rape as War Strategy: A Drama from Croatia – Sanja NikčevićChapter 9: Far Away, So Close: Psychosocial and Theatre Activities with Serbian Refugees – Guglielmo SchininàChapter 10: Play Extract: Refugees – Zlatko Topčic´ (Translated into English by Davor Diklić)Chapter 11: ‘Politics Begins as Ethics’: Levinasian Ethics and Australian Performance Concerning Refugees – Tom BurvillChapter 12: Refugee Performance: Encounters with Alterity – Michael BalfourChapter 13: Repeat Performance: Dancing DiDinga with the Lost Boys of Southern Sudan – Felecia Faye McMahonChapter 14: Theatre as a Healing Space: Ping Chong’s Children of War – Yuko KurahashiChapter 15: Drama and Citizenship Education: Tensions of Creativity, Content and Cash – Sarah Woodland and Rob LachowiczChapter 16: Inclusive Democracy: A Consideration of Playback Theatre with Refugee and Asylum Seekers in Australia – Rea DennisChapter 17: Hospitable Stages and Civil Listening: Being an Audience for Participatory Refugee Theatre – Alison Jeffers