On Access in Applied Theatre and Drama Education - 9781032089652

Taylor & Francis

On Access in Applied Theatre and Drama EducationAuthor(s): Colette Conroy, Adelina Ong, Dirk J. Rodricks\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032089652, 978-1032089652\nSynopsis\nThis book explores and interrogates access and diversity in applied theatre and drama education.\n\nAccess is persistently framed as a strategy to share power and to extend equality, but in the context of current and recent power struggles, it is also seen as a discourse that reinforces marginalisation and exclusion. The political bind of access is also a conceptual problem. It is impossible to refuse to engage in strategies to extend access to institutions, representations, buildings, education, discourse, etc. We cannot oppose access or strategies for access without reinforcing marginalisation and exclusion. We cant not want access for ourselves or for others. However, we are then in danger of remaining immersed in a distribution of power.