Courageous artists working in conflict regions describe exemplary
peacebuilding performances and groundbreaking theory on performance
for transformation of violence. Acting Together: Performance and
the Creative Transformation of Conflict is a two-volume work
describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence
and internal conflicts. Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in
Regions of Violence, emphasizes the role theatre and ritual play
both in the midst and in the aftermath of direct violence, while
Volume II: Building Just and Inclusive Communities, focuses on the
transformative power of performance in regions fractured by
"subtler" forms of structural violence and social exclusion. Volume
I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence focuses on
the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the
aftermath of violence. The performances highlighted in this volume
nourish and restore capacities for expression, communication, and
transformative action, and creatively support communities in
grappling with conflicting moral imperatives surrounding questions
of justice, memory, resistance, and identity. The individual
chapters, written by scholars, conflict resolution practitioners,
and artists who work directly with the communities involved, offer
vivid firsthand accounts and analyses of traditional and
nontraditional performances in Serbia, Uganda, Sri Lanka,
Palestine, Israel, Argentina, Peru, India, Cambodia, Australia, and
the United States. Complemented by a website of related materials,
a documentary film, Acting Together on the World Stage, that
features clips and interviews with the curators and artists, and a
toolkit, or "Tools for Continuing the Conversation," that is
included with the documentary as a second disc, this book will
inform and inspire socially engaged artists, cultural workers,
peacebuilding scholars and practitioners, human rights activists,
students of peace and justice studies, and whoever wishes to better
understand conflict and the power of art to bring about social
change. The Acting Together project is born of a collaboration
between Theatre Without Borders and the Program in Peacebuilding
and the Arts at the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and
Public Life at Brandeis University. The two volumes are edited by
Cynthia E. Cohen, director of the aforementioned program and a
leading figure in creative approaches to coexistence and
reconciliation; Roberto Gutierrez Varea, an award-winning director
and associate professor at the University of San Francisco; and
Polly O. Walker, director of Partners in Peace, an NGO based in
Brisbane, Australia..
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