Fighting Violence With Theatre
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Fighting Violence With Theatre
A piece by Nadia Khomami in theguardian.com, raises a crucial point about the in which art can be used to counter violence. She writes about a play by Sam Edmunds, titled The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return, about a stabbing at a house party that is based on true events.
Edmunds says in the piece, "I wrote the play because I started reflecting on why a community might be surrounded by knife violence, It's an interrogation of the repression and suffocation in working-class communities like Luton, and the effect that has on young people. How when you have so much anger and nowhere to put it, and there are no schemes of protection for people, that can often breed violence."
"As part of the outreach programme, young people will be brought in to see the play in each town before workshopping the material with the help of a facilitator and a drama therapist. They will be asked to interrogate the themes of the play, like the moments the characters made the wrong decisions and the consequences of that," writes Khamami.
Edmunds rightly says, "It's about empowering the young people, rather than lecturing them. It's giving them a space to explore the events, so that if they ever experience something similar in real life, they can identify what's happening and try to avoid it."
Initiatives like this show that the true potential of theatre is seldom utilized in community building or crisis intervention programmes.
Fighting Violence With Theatre
A piece by Nadia Khomami in theguardian.com, raises a crucial point about the in which art can be used to counter violence. She writes about a play by Sam Edmunds, titled The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return, about a stabbing at a house party that is based on true events.
Edmunds says in the piece, "I wrote the play because I started reflecting on why a community might be surrounded by knife violence, It's an interrogation of the repression and suffocation in working-class communities like Luton, and the effect that has on young people. How when you have so much anger and nowhere to put it, and there are no schemes of protection for people, that can often breed violence."
"As part of the outreach programme, young people will be brought in to see the play in each town before workshopping the material with the help of a facilitator and a drama therapist. They will be asked to interrogate the themes of the play, like the moments the characters made the wrong decisions and the consequences of that," writes Khamami.
Edmunds rightly says, "It's about empowering the young people, rather than lecturing them. It's giving them a space to explore the events, so that if they ever experience something similar in real life, they can identify what's happening and try to avoid it."
Initiatives like this show that the true potential of theatre is seldom utilized in community building or crisis intervention programmes.
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