The Mart Theatre Project : exploring identity in a community-based applied theatre project with young people

This thesis details the theoretical and practical implications of utilizing applied theatre as a tool for the exploration of youth identity and relationship to community. Drawing on traditions of ethnography and reflective practitioner research, this document explores the roles of identity and identity-based inequities as they relate to Mart Theatre Project, an applied theatre project aimed at engaging students in Mart, Texas in a larger community development initiative taking place in their town. The document comprises critical analyses of the roles of student identity, facilitator identity, and community identity as they pertain to a community-based applied theatre process and product. The resulting discussion argues for a continual awareness that that the applied theatre process is impacting and impacted by the identities of the facilitator and the participants.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Theatre

Grantor

University of Texas at Austin

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• McNamee, Anne Marcelline

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Alrutz, Megan

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Gilbert, Dorie
• Hoare, Lynn

• Applied theatre
• Identity
• Rural youth

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5575

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5575