Includes bibliographical references and index.

Applied theatre: ecology of practice / Jenny Hughes and Helen Nicholson -- Histories and cultural memories. Toward a historiography of the absent: on the late pasts of applied theatre and community performance / Baz Kershaw -- A pre-history of applied theatre: work, house, perform / Jenny Hughes -- Applied theatre and cultural memory in East and Southeast Asia / Wan-jung Wang -- Dear nise: method, madness and artistic occupation at a psychiatric hospital in Rio de Janeiro / Paul Heritage and Silvia Ramos -- Place, community and environment. Performing location: place and applied theatre / Sally Mackey -- Peacebuilding performances in the aftermath of war: lessons from Bougainville / Paul Dwyer -- Applied theatre and climate change in Bangladesh: indigenous theatrics for neoliberal theatricks / Syed Jamil Ahmed -- Applied theatre and disaster capitalism: resisting and rebuilding in Christchurch / Peter O'Connor -- Poetics and participation. Applied theatre and participation in the 'new' South Africa: a possible politics / Mark Fleishman -- Staging labour rights / Soyini Madison -- The micro-political and the socio-structural in applied theatre with homeless youth / Kathleen Gallagher -- A good day out: applied theatre, relationality and participation / Helen Nicholson.