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Community Theatre and AIDS

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Ola Johansson
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Part of the book series: Studies in International Performance (STUDINPERF)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Ola Johansson
    Pages 1-32

  3. HIV Prevention as Community-Based Theatre

    • Ola Johansson
    Pages 33-55

  4. The Performativity of Community-Based Theatre

    • Ola Johansson
    Pages 56-78

  5. The Social Drama of Backstage Discourse and Performance

    • Ola Johansson
    Pages 79-122

  6. A Deadly Paradox: Assessing the Success/Failure of Community-Based Theatre against AIDS

    • Ola Johansson
    Pages 123-148

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 149-179
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Applying research into assessments of community theatre, epidemiology, and young people's shared and private stories using a wide range of methodologies, this book explores the potential efficacy of community theatre to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania with reference to several other comparable sites in Africa.

About the author

Dr OLA JOHANSSON Visiting Professor at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts where he teaches Artistic Research and Devising. He has published articles on community-based theatre as HIV prevention and performance art. His latest book is Performance and Philosophy: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Performing Arts (Saarbrücken: Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co., 2008).

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