Community theatre transforms isolated audiences into creators of original work

Evidence

Matrix Theatre Company uses the transformative power of theatre to change lives, build community, and foster social justice. It creates opportunities for children, youth, adults and elders, especially those in isolated or challenged communities, to become creators, producers, and audience of original theatre. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1829

Categorization

• XREF: The audience-becomes-creator inversion models the eco-justice move from passive consumption to active participation, resonant across the curriculum. — connects to: Public art revitalizes community by giving voice to silenced groups — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1822; Avant-garde theater concepts reached mass audiences through political street action — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 2038; Happenings converted raw industrial spaces into participatory performance venues — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 179 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Commercial culture can be repurposed for active face-to-face community #exemplifies (0.80) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 916
• Happenings converted raw industrial spaces into participatory performance venues #expands (0.75) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 179
• Living Theatre performances could dissolve the boundary between actors and audience into chaos #exemplifies (0.75) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1426
• Performance art failures could read as successful participatory theater. #qualifies (0.72) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1279
• Avant-garde theater concepts reached mass audiences through political street action #expands (0.70) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 2038
• A novel’s readers and characters can be fused into one imagined community. #complicates (0.70) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 95