Real Fiction: Theatre and Creative Research

Welsh, Scott

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“…According to Carole Gray and Gordon Burnett, the work becomes an “epistemic object” that is both communicating the knowledge obtained from the research to that point, whilst also having potential to be “incomplete and open, allowing for further explorations by the creator and/or others towards new knowledge making” (Gray and Burnett, 2014, p. 213). In this sense, “knowledge of human relations, human behaviour and human capacities can be found in the throes of conversation and that this conversation can be transplanted from social reality onto a stage” (Welsh, 2014, p. 132). Music theory and artistic research scholar Henk Borgdorff also writes:the phenomena at work in the artistic domain are decidedly cognitive and rational, even if we cannot always directly access them via language and concepts.…”

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Theatre arts in UK city of culture evaluation practices: the case for headphone verbatim

Ingram

2023

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PurposeThis article's purpose is to examine the case for the use of the theatre arts in the evaluation of UK City of Culture (UKCC) programmes, specifically headphone verbatim.Design/methodology/approachThrough an analysis of secondary evidence, supported by some primary research, this article analyses past and present evaluation practices surrounding UKCC programmes and the case for headphone verbatim to be included as a method of gathering and distributing research data. The article also observes the challenges in how data may be disseminated through verbatim theatre performance practices, given the limited examples of its use in this context.FindingsThe author argues that the theatre arts can provide a different way of knowing and understanding the impacts of UKCC projects on the host city. Specifically, that headphone verbatim can bring an experiential perspective that is rarely if ever captured by existing UKCC evaluation methods and policymaking in general.Originality/valueThis article details an innovative method of evaluating social impacts associated with UKCC projects.

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Theatre arts in UK city of culture evaluation practices: the case for headphone verbatim

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2023

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“…I describe my theatre-making as 'real fiction' because, like many forms of artifice, it involves representing so-called 'reality' (Welsh 2014). In this instance, we conceive of reality as the patterns of speech or speech rhythms that identify individual ways of talking, our verbal method of expression.…”

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The Phenomenology of Monologue Writing as Pedagogy

Welsh

1969

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This article explores the notion that for playwrights, actors, students of theatre or indeed anyone, the writing of monologues can be the catalyst for reflection on the nature of human existence, as well as an exercise in educational phenomenology. It also suggests that the playwright's processes, such as monologue writing, can be seen as a form of pedagogical practice and building on that, a form of public pedagogy.The practice-led research drawn on in this article involves students participating in the process of monologue writing workshops conducted in two settings: in a secondary school with a group of drama students (nine students and two teachers), and in a university teacher-training setting (23 pre-service teachers). In the first setting the process was used to explore issues of social labelling, and in the second setting, the pre-service teachers were asked to consider the point of view of students from whom they felt a sense of disconnection. The creative process of writing monologues, traditionally confined to theatre practice and the drama classroom, was used with the aim of fostering empathy between the pre-service teachers and their students.

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“…The idea of social labels has been a common theme in my own creative work, including my work with 'real fiction', where I have explored issues such as homelessness, crime and addiction (Welsh 2014). Issues that have repeatedly emerged in this practice relate to the challenges of giving voice to subjective experience, as well as the risk of speaking on behalf of those who are objectified by a negative label -the homeless, drug-addicted and those who may have felt themselves to be 'other'.…”

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Monologue writing as social education: applying creative practice

Welsh

2017

Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and

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This paper explores an example of applied theatre and praxis learning in an Australian classroom with drama students aged 16 to 17 years which took the form of 'real fiction' or social theatre monologue writing. It presents monologue responses from nine participants, altered by the researcher to protect identities and to tease out issues encountered by the student authors. This practice provided vital data about how participants view and behave in the social world of secondary school. Student participants explored the various ways that they are labelled in their social world, and agreed that the labels that matter to them are the ones used in the schoolyard and outside school as opposed to in the classroom. The use of a specific, practice-led methodology, based on the writing of theatre monologues in a drama classroom, represents an original contribution to the field of practice-based and/or practice-led drama research in education. The monologue form, with its focus on a single voice, is a medium for the exploration of subjectivity that provides insight into how young people view the social and relational spaces they exist inside.The monologues presented in this article were written by a group of Australian secondary school drama students who participated in a social theatre writing workshop using a 'real fiction' documentary-style methodology. The students were asked to write monologues based on real people, exploring the subject of labels.

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Real Fiction: Theatre and Creative Research

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Theatre arts in UK city of culture evaluation practices: the case for headphone verbatim

Theatre arts in UK city of culture evaluation practices: the case for headphone verbatim

The Phenomenology of Monologue Writing as Pedagogy

Monologue writing as social education: applying creative practice

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