Elliott, M orcid.org/0000-0002-7092-2161 (2021) Young People as Legislators: Legislative Theatre and Youth Parliament. Applied Theatre Research, 9 (1). pp. 73-86. ISSN 2049-3010
Abstract
Young People as Legislators is the result of a six-month Legislative Theatre project with Collective Encounters Youth Theatre, Youth Focus NW and Youth Parliament UK. The project formed part of a wider scheme of practice as research that explored youth theatre practice as political engagement for young people. Legislative Theatre practice was utilized to work alongside the Youth Parliament’s Make Your Mark scheme, an annual poll for young people to decide on campaigning issues. In this article, I consider three elements: tokenism in youth engagement, differing experiences between artistic process and product, and applied theatre’s inability to develop long-term effects. Employing the critical theories of Paulo Freire, the article regards the practice as a failed attempt to develop critical youth theatre practice. I argue that the Legislative Theatre project led to uncritical engagement and no political change due to partner organizations regarding the theatre practice as a service to satisfy their own targets and requirements.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Intellect Ltd. This is an author produced version of an article, published in Applied Theatre Research. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Augusto Boal; Legislative Theatre; Youth Parliament; critical pedagogy; political engagement; theatre for social change; young people |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Feb 2022 16:20 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2022 00:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Intellect |
Identification Number: | 10.1386/atr_00049_1 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:183921 |