Troubling aesthetics: mapping vulnerability as a generative force in community theatre

This article explores the risks and potentials of staging vulnerability in community theatre with teenage girls. By drawing on postconstructionist spatial theories, elaborates how aesthetic spaces emerge when interwoven vulnerability. Exploring becomes a generative, or restrictive force, debates tensions produced process terms potentia potestas. It examines embeddedness drama practice as it both challenges merges local context participants’ everyday. The argues that this is prerequisite to turn into potentia.