Graduation Year

2012

Publication Date

Spring 4-18-2012

Abstract

My project focuses on the goal of learning to create an ethnodrama (a theatre piece created from qualitative research data) based on stories from a specific community, to be performed for that community. I plan to conduct a focus group and 6-8 interviews at Westminster Village, workshop a staged reading of a new hour-long play based on texts from the interviews and focus group with IWU theatre students, and perform this staged reading at Westminster Village for the participants in my study and invited guests. I hope to learn qualitative research methodologies, including entering the field and conducting focus groups and open-ended interviews; dramaturgical skills creating the theatre piece; and how to craft a theatre piece for a very specific audience.

Disciplines

Other Theatre and Performance Studies | Theatre and Performance Studies

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