Towards Youth
In drama classrooms around the world, we are learning that activated hope is a social fabric that connects youth across geography, and might form the basis of a new, audacious citizenship.
What if Radical Hope were activated?
Through creative practices, young people are subverting systems of separation to build connection and community that activate hope and create change.
In "Youth, Theatre, Radical Hope and the Ethical Imaginary: an intercultural investigation of drama pedagogy, performance and civic engagement", youth, teachers and artists in five countries explored ideas of youth civic engagement, hope and care.
Young people are not being heard, and their voices really matter. Towards Youth is a play that uses young people's words to tell their real stories. Watch the play to see the Radical Hope come to life.
Young people are teaching us the ways practices of hope can offer a political alternative that moves us from accepting our future, to creating it.
Why Drama?
Drama and storytelling invite performances across research sites to become life rehearsals, embodied enactments of desires, dreams, and re-imaginings of present life-limiting conditions.
Verbatim theatre is created from word-for-word interviews with real people.
An ensemble-based model of theatre using primary sources of material from the creators' lives and from popular culture.
A practice of building theatre from personal objects or memories.
A site-specific creative practice that locates stories of the self, memory, and community within material spaces.
Using drama engages creators in simultaneous symbolic and real thinking about how to be in relation with others different from themselves-- who am I, relative to others, and what compels me to act upon my world?