Manon van de Water is a Professor of Theatre Research and Director of the Theatre for Youth Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). Since 2008 she serves as Chair of the ASSITEJ Network ITYARN, the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network.

• Contents: Manon van de Water: Foreword – Beth Juncker: What’s the Meaning? The Relations between Professional Theatre Performances and Children’s Cultural Life – Tülin Saglam: TYA as Ideological Production in Turkey – Roger L. Bedard: Cultural Hegemony and Theatre for Young Audiences: Looking Beyond the «Normal» – Pamela Arnold Udoka: Conceptualization of Child and Childhood in Nigerian Theatre: A Dwindling Phenomenon? – Tristan V. Jacobs: The Virtual Puppet in the Machinima Movement: Discovering Virtual Puppetry in the 3D Performance Space of Video Games – Michelle Solberg: Quiet Dissent: Citizen Activism and the Kodomo Gekijō Movement in 1960 - 70s Japan – Erika Hughes: Defining the Child: Taboos of Fear and Age Appropriateness in Youth Holocaust Drama – Finegan Kruckemeyer: The Taboo of Sadness: Why Are We Scared to Let Children Be Scared? – J. Andrew Wiginton: Príncipe y Príncipe: Made in México – Enza Giannone: Searching for America in Laurie Brooks’s Triangle and Cynthia Mercati’s Faces of Freedom – Roxanne Schroeder-Arce/Chris McCoy: The Chicken or the Egg: Latino/as in Theatre for Young Audiences, Cyclical Challenge in Higher Education in the United States – David Broster: TYA-UK Developments - Reflections through a Looking Glass – Iva Gruić: Educational Value in the Theatre for Young Audiences and Its Relation to the Attitudes of the Educational Community – YiRen Tsai: A Reflection of the Child and Childhood in Taiwanese TYA through the Winning Plays of The Taipei Children’s Arts Festival – Merete Elnan: The Notion of Children: How Can the Idea of Childhood, of Children as Spectators, and of Understanding Influence Theatre for Young Audiences? – Faith Gabrielle Guss: Destabilizing Perception and Generating Meaning Seeking? Modeling TYA on the Dramaturgy of Children’s Imaginative Play-Drama.

Manon van de Water is a Professor of Theatre Research and Director of the Theatre for Youth Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). Since 2008 she serves as Chair of the ASSITEJ Network ITYARN, the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network.

• Contents: Manon van de Water: Foreword – Beth Juncker: What’s the Meaning? The Relations between Professional Theatre Performances and Children’s Cultural Life – Tülin Saglam: TYA as Ideological Production in Turkey – Roger L. Bedard: Cultural Hegemony and Theatre for Young Audiences: Looking Beyond the «Normal» – Pamela Arnold Udoka: Conceptualization of Child and Childhood in Nigerian Theatre: A Dwindling Phenomenon? – Tristan V. Jacobs: The Virtual Puppet in the Machinima Movement: Discovering Virtual Puppetry in the 3D Performance Space of Video Games – Michelle Solberg: Quiet Dissent: Citizen Activism and the Kodomo Gekijō Movement in 1960 - 70s Japan – Erika Hughes: Defining the Child: Taboos of Fear and Age Appropriateness in Youth Holocaust Drama – Finegan Kruckemeyer: The Taboo of Sadness: Why Are We Scared to Let Children Be Scared? – J. Andrew Wiginton: Príncipe y Príncipe: Made in México – Enza Giannone: Searching for America in Laurie Brooks’s Triangle and Cynthia Mercati’s Faces of Freedom – Roxanne Schroeder-Arce/Chris McCoy: The Chicken or the Egg: Latino/as in Theatre for Young Audiences, Cyclical Challenge in Higher Education in the United States – David Broster: TYA-UK Developments - Reflections through a Looking Glass – Iva Gruić: Educational Value in the Theatre for Young Audiences and Its Relation to the Attitudes of the Educational Community – YiRen Tsai: A Reflection of the Child and Childhood in Taiwanese TYA through the Winning Plays of The Taipei Children’s Arts Festival – Merete Elnan: The Notion of Children: How Can the Idea of Childhood, of Children as Spectators, and of Understanding Influence Theatre for Young Audiences? – Faith Gabrielle Guss: Destabilizing Perception and Generating Meaning Seeking? Modeling TYA on the Dramaturgy of Children’s Imaginative Play-Drama.