Theatre for Community Conflict and Dialogue: The Hope Is Vital Training Manual Book

This book is awesome. it is a training manual in the sense that it is immediately useful, applicable, and empowering; rohd gives the reader the tools to create peer education theatre programs around social issues, organize a one-time community or professional workshop that uses theatre to address relevant issues, or a broad range of other applications for this work. i appreciate the structure of the book: oriented toward designing workshops, it moves gently from "warm-up material," exercises that build trust and ensemble, to "bridge work" that begins to generate creative material and prepare the group for deeper or more difficult dialogue, and then improv and "activating material," which uses sculpting, monologues, and other exercises to generate powerful material for use in the workshop or peer/community education.

highly recommend this book for teachers, folks who work with peer educators, theatre-makers itching to build relevant work, and improv groups looking to work with issues in their community. or you can start playing in your living room!

thank you, thank you, thank you!