Theatre and development

Resources

The KIT Library Queries at the bottom of this page, offer quick and easy access to (printed & electronic) articles and books in the KIT Library collection on theatre, drama and performing arts as a development tool and as an artistic expression.
Hereunder you will find audio-visuals & documents that have not (yet) been included in the KIT Library collection:

Audio-visual material

The 'Acting Against Worms' (Bilharzia) School Drama Festival in Busia, Eastern Uganda, April 2010
Theatrescience | 2010 | 6min.18s.

Using puppets and theatre for HIV prevention (video)
The Body | 2008 | 12 min.12s.

HIV Awareness performance by the Youth African Theatre Troop
Chester Eastside Ministries | 2007 | 9min.57s.

Documents

2010

Looking for Amina: an experience of Forum Theatre
de Miguel, J.
This article explores how participatory approaches derived from Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed techniques can spark debates and action around migrant human rights and development. Glocal Times | Issue 14, May 2010

Acting against worms. Short report
Teare J. and Gould R.
The theatre project reported was to share health messages about the prevention and treatment of the disease Bilharzia.
Theaterscience  | 2010 | 6pp.

2009

Participatory theatre for conflict transformation: training manual
Slachmuijlder L. and Tshibanda D.
Search for Common Ground | 2009 | 52pp.

Healing communities by strengthening by strengthening social capital: a narrative theatre approach. Training facilitators and community workers
Sliep Y. and War Trauma Foundation | 2009 | 124pp

2008

Use of soaps containing mercury in Africa: how to fight it!
Appel P.W.U.
Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen | 2008 | 46pp.

Feel, think, act! A guide to interactive drama for sexual and reproductive health and young people
International HIV/AIDS Alliance | 2008| 191pp.

2007

Forum theatre effects on beliefs about business
Hakemulder F. | 2007 | 28pp.

What's culture got to do with HIV and AIDS
Healthlinks Findings Paper |2007 | 7  | 8pp.

2006

'Ben ni Walen': Let's agree and take action. Mobilising for human rights using participatory theatre
Amnesty International, Amsterdam | 2006 | 152pp. 

Evaluation of HIV and AIDS community theatre
Corrigan H.
Wan Smolbag Theatre, Port Vila | 2006 | 51pp

Theater in Karachi Focuses on Violence Against Women
Halai J. S.
The South Asian  | 2006 |

Art and puppet theatre provide relief for child survivors of Pakistan quake
Logan K.
Unicef Pakistan | 2006 |

Community theatre & human rights training: report
Muriithi E.N.  | 2006  | 26pp.

Theatre group Malayerba from Ecuador wants to be close to the people
Schuring J.
Power of Culture | 2006 |

2005

Child participation in awareness raising through theatre
Muiruri J. 
Amref | 2005 | 4pp.

2004

Using participatory media to explore gender relations and HIV/AIDS amongst South African youth: the example of DramAidE
Botha P. and Durden E.
Unesco | 2004 | 25pp. 

Are we answering the right questions? Challenges for communicating behavior change through community theatre among the Barbaig in northern Tanzania
Hatar A.
Ohio University, Athens | 2004 | 25pp.

Educational theatre at the edge of the crush: the use of theatre as entertainment-education in HIV and AIDS awareness and prevention in the South African mining sector: opportunites for change
Maritz G.
Ohio University, Athens | 2004 | 17pp.

Theatre for Life: Health information, Community Mobilisation and Child Rights. A qualitative evaluation (The report on the evaluation of the TFL project UNICEF Sudan)
Mavrocordatos A.
Centre for the Arts in Development Communication, University College Winchester | 2004 | 80pp.

Participatory folk theatre with listeners of an entertainment-education radio soap opera
Sharma D. and Pant S.
School of Communication Studies, Ohio University, Athens | 2004 | 17pp.

2003

The puppet has a cough: how puppets are used in Ethiopia in education about AIDS and HIV
Medical Missionaries of Mary | 2003 |

Drama in HIV/AIDS prevention: some strengths and weaknesses. A study in Botswana, Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda
Mwansa D. and Bergman P. | 2003 | 43pp.

year unknown

Developing locally relevant theatre in Nigeria
Gumucio-Dagron A.
Communication for Social Change Consortium | year unknown  

Magnet theater: setting the stage for transformation
PATH | year unknown

Using dance, drama and ICT to inform rural communities: the ARRIN project. Drama and dance make people change
Tulip E. and Jager A. de
IICD | year unknown | 4pp.

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