Making a Leap - Theatre of Empowerment

A Practical Handbook for Creative Drama Work with Young People

Sara Clifford and Anna Herrmann
Foreword by Alec Davison

Paperback: £19.95 / $36.95

1998, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 256pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-632-4, BIC 2: AN MQTC YXL

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'This book offers the reader a comprehensive way of devising issue-based theatre with young people. The model is based on a ten-week full-time Leap project which involves three weeks of group work and training, three weeks of devising and rehearsing, and four weeks of touring. The characters are created as group members research the theme and draw on their own experiences. It allows the young people to be in control of the product they create, supported by the faciitators. There is a strong sense of empowerment.'

- Arts Research Digest

Author information

• Sara Clifford
• Anna Herrmann

Subject areas

• Health, Social Work and Social Care

Keywords

• adolescence,
• child protection,
• children,
• creative therapies,
• dramatherapy,
• restorative justice,
• teenagers,
• youthwork