Audiencing the audience: Playback theatre, performative writing, and social activism

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 288-310

  Park Fuller, Linda M ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activism; Audience; Interactive performance; Performative writing; Playback theatre

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966726562     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10462930310001635321     Document Type: Article

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