• Publication date: 05/2017
  • Volume: 36
  • Issue: 2
Foreword

When we were invited as co-editors of a special issue on performance, we immediately began discussions on a theme that we felt strongly about. The two of us have had numerous collegial discussions while completing our doctorates (at separate institutions), and one topic that kept returning in our conversations was the issue of working responsibly with other people’s stories and experiences. As feminists, we both were sensitive to the implications of speaking on someone else’s behalf. For instance, Linda Alcoff (1991-1992: 6) argues that:

As a type of discursive practice, speaking on behalf of others has come under increasing criticism, and in some communities rejected. There is a strong, albeit contested, current within feminism which holds that speaking for others is arrogant, vain, unethical and politically illegitimate.

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Articles
Natalie Lazaroo, Sarah Peters, Penny Bundy, Dallas Baker, Linden Wilkinson, Tim Prentki, Shane Pike, Jeremy Poxon, Stephen Harris, Kate Elkington, Darren Smith, John Synott, Noel King, Lesley Synge, John Strano, Warwick Fry, David Reiter
3 Introduction: Performance, Community and Intervention Natalie Lazaroo and Sarah Peters
6 Acts of Stammering and Aesthetic Nervousness: Reflections on intervention in applied theatre practice Natalie Lazaroo
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13 Supporting Settlement: Participatory drama as intervention Penny Bundy
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20 Textual and Performative Interventions: Autobiographical stage writing as a rescription of the self Dallas Baker
25 ‘Ten Foot Tall and Bullet-proof’ – Assess, Adapt and Overcome: The Anzac legend in modern times Linden Wilkinson
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32 The Impact of Participating in a Verbatim Theatre Process Sarah Peters
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40 Hearts Are Trump’s: Post-truth as intervention Tim Prentki
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48 Articulating the Inarticulate: Performance and intervention in masculine gender (re)presentation Shane Pike
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Short Stories
57 Eden Kate Elkington
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Book Reviews
55 Riot. Strike. Riot: The new era of uprisings Jeremy Poxon
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56 Island Home Stephen Harris
Poetry
5 Pukekura, Royal Albatross John Synott
5 About Herself Noel King
5 Chai Wallah Lesley Synge
12 Roos at Dawn John Strano
24 Watering Trees in Nicaragua Warwick Fry
39 The Eater of Light David Reiter
39 At the Board Meeting Noel King
47 The Pyramid at the End of the World David Reiter
54 Extremis David Reiter
Misc.
60 The Black and White of Reptiles Darren Smith