Audience Engagement in Theatre for Social Change

Designing for Audience Engagement

I will start with a question that constantly lingers in the back of my mind as an experience designer, “how do I define what I do in a simple way?” For me, the practice of ‘experience design’ is designing for people with the objective of engaging them in positive experiences. Designing for people and engaging them requires knowing and thinking about the people who might use the specific product...

Audience participation in children's theatre performances

The gardener picks up a fir cone and rolls it through the quiet room straight towards a small child in the audience. Either the child leaves the fir cone lying where it is, or perhaps picks it up. Perhaps the child will later roll the fir cone on towards another child. Or make a gravel track around its mother. Maybe the child kneels down beside a bed full of branches and twigs and feels the mat...

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

Theatre for a Change (TfaC)

1 Theatre for a Change (TfaC) is a UK registered charity, which is also registered as a non-governmental organisation in Ghana and Malawi and has a Board of Directors in both countries. TfaC equips socially and economically marginalised communities with communications skills, knowledge and awareness to transform their lives and the lives of others on a personal, social and professional level. T...

Making Audience Engagement Visible: Publics for Journalism on Social Media Platforms