Reality theatre as a method for social science research: the Vietnamese diaspora in Central Europe
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2023.2301215" target="_blank" >10.1080/14682761.2023.2301215</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Reality theatre as a method for social science research: the Vietnamese diaspora in Central Europe
Original language description
This article examines the use of reality theatre and its seemingly distinct categories, ethnotheatre and documentary theatre, within the social sciences. Reality theatre employs qualitative methodology, data production, and factual information as a basis for the staging process and interlinks social science research with creative practice. This approach, I argue, results in performances that are not only entertaining but informative, educational, or function pedagogically as a stimulus for social change. I argue that the division of reality theatre into several categories can be omitted in favour of a broader approach, in order to analyse the sociocultural realities staged through performance. This is demonstrated through analysis of two theatre projects from Central Europe focused on the Vietnamese diaspora – Rimini Protokoll’s Vùng biên giới (Border Area) (2009), and the Czech part of the What’SAP project (a two-year project connecting Czech Republic, Serbia, Hungary, and France in an exchange of knowledge creation and audience participation in intercultural dialogues) called Každý má v sobě dva vlky (Everyone Has Two Wolves Inside of Them) (2023). By examining and analysing how each project utilises reality theatre, I present them as important examples of the links between social science and contemporary theatre practice.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60403 - Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Studies in Theatre and Performance
ISSN
1468-2761
e-ISSN
2040-0616
Volume of the periodical
2023
Issue of the periodical within the volume
leden
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
1-16
UT code for WoS article
001138466400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85181662316