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This book analyses the partnership between applied theatre and sexual health communication in a theatre-making project in Nyanga, a township in South Africa. By examining the bridges and schisms between the two fields as they come together in the project, an alternative way of approaching sexual health communication is advocated. This alternative considers what it is that applied theatre does, and could become, in this context. Moments of valu...

Understandings of sex, sexuality, consent and safe relationships are as diverse and complicated as the multiple cultures and communities which exist. Conversations about what safe sex means for you or for your community are complex, difficult to negotiate and are regularly furtive or secretive. When sexual health education seeks to intervene it is often constrained, medicalised and 'mechanical' (in that it focuses on the mechanics of the event...

Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Challenging concepts and understanding of health, wellbeing and illness, it offers insight into different approaches to major health issues through applied performance. With a strong emphasis on the artistry...