Performing Violence in Rotrou’s Theater

Performing Violence in Rotrou’s Theater

Exploring domestic violence and social distress in Australian-Indian migrants through community theater.

In many parts of the world, young adult women have higher levels of common mental disorders than men. The exacerbation of domestic violence (DV) by migration is a salient social determinant of poor mental health. Ecological models describe factors contributing to DV as operating at individual, family, cultural, and societal levels. We explored the interplay among these factors in an Indian comm...

Using interactive theater to create socioculturally relevant community-based intimate partner violence prevention.

This article describes the use of interactive theater, audience response assessment, and peer educators to create community-generated approaches for bystander interventions (i.e., actions taken by people who become aware of controlling, abusive and violent behavior of others) to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) and to foster change in community norms. We include a case example of an ongo...

Information Theater versus Information Reenery Where Intelligence Resides Information Theater

Intelligent behavior of a system is often equated with its ability to perform logical or heuristic inferences. Intelligence is thought to reside in the ability to reene the knowledge base, and thus in the articulation of \new" facts beyond the set of assertions explicitly represented. The fragility and complexity of the inference mechanisms required for this invite attempts at imbuing other com...

Ecological Knowledge in Community Theater

In his article "Ecological Knowledge in Community T tioner's perspective on plays which complex environmental problems. Community plays can highlight environmental injustices and assist communities to find a voice. The center-stage in community plays, and the role of community arts, alongside scientific research, in developing and communicating shared understanding of environmental problems and...