Stages of Reckoning (Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance)

Levels of Reckoning is a vital dialog about how racialized our bodies and energy intersect inside actor coaching areas.

This e book provokes embodied and mental discomfort for the reader to take dangers with their ideologies, identities, and practices and to make new pedagogical selections for college students with racialized identities. Centering the voices of actor trainers of shade to acknowledge their private expertise {and professional} pedagogy as idea, this quantity illuminates actionable concepts for textual content work, casting, voice, consent practices, and motion whereas providing decolonial approaches to present Eurocentric strategies. These choices invite the reader to create areas the place college students can convey extra of themselves, their communities, and their tales into their coaching and as fodder for efficiency making that can result in a extra simply world.

This e book is for individuals in excessive/secondary faculties, greater schooling, and personal coaching studios who want to educate and direct actors of shade in ways in which extra totally honor their a number of identities.